noun
- 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.