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evacuation |
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1. The process of moving any person who is wounded, injured, or ill to and/or between medical treatment facilities. 2. The clearance of personnel, animals, or materiel from a given locality. 3. The controlled process of collecting, classifying, and shipping unserviceable or abandoned materiel, US or foreign, to appropriate reclamation, maintenance, technical intelligence, or disposal facilities. 4. The ordered or authorized departure of noncombatants from a specific area by Department of State, Department of Defense, or appropriate military commander. This refers to the movement from one area to another in the same or different countries. The evacuation is caused by unusual or emergency circumstances and applies equally to command or non-command sponsored family members. See also evacuee; noncombatant evacuation operations. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
evacuation noun 1. removal, departure, withdrawal, clearance, flight, expulsion, exodus an evacuation of the city's four million inhabitants 2. abandonment, withdrawal from, pulling out, moving out, clearance from, vacation from the mass evacuation of Srebrenica Translations evacuation [ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃən] N 1. [of people] → evacuación f 2. [of building, area] → evacuación f 3. (frm) [of bowels] → evacuación f evacuation [ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən] n (= removal) [people] → évacuation f (= clearing) [place] → évacuation f evacuation n (of fort, house, danger area) → Räumung f; (of civilians, women, children) → Evakuierung f evacuation [ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃ/ən] n (see vb) → sfollamento, evacuazione f evacuation [ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃ/ən] n (see vb) → sfollamento, evacuazione f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At that very time, in circumstances even more important than retreating without a battle, namely the evacuation and burning of Moscow, Rostopchin, who is usually represented as being the instigator of that event, acted in an altogether different manner from Kutuzov. Their fundamental is, that all diseases arise from repletion; whence they conclude, that a great evacuation of the body is necessary, either through the natural passage or upwards at the mouth. |
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