1. a person who is moved away from a place of danger to a safer location

Examples

• The evacuees were taken to a temporary shelter in the school gymnasium.
• Hurricane evacuees filled the hotels in neighboring cities.
• During World War II, many London children became evacuees in the countryside.
• The Red Cross provided food and blankets for the wildfire evacuees.
• Evacuees from the flooded areas were housed in emergency centers.
• The government set up camps to accommodate the evacuees from the disaster zone.