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| DHS |
an abbreviation for "Department of Homeland Security." The DHS is the part of the U.S. government that deals with immigration and naturalization. It also tries to protect the country from terrorism. |
| displace |
to force out of a homeland or established place. [1/4 definitions] |
| displaced person |
a person who has become homeless, usu. as a result of having been forced from his or her homeland by war. |
| DP |
abbreviation of "displaced person," a person who has become homeless, usu. as a result of having been forced from his or her homeland by war. |
| fatherland |
a person's homeland; native soil. [1/2 definitions] |
| Hmong |
an ethnic group of Asia whose homeland includes the mountainous regions of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. [1/2 definitions] |
| Navajo |
a member of a Native American people whose homeland lies in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. [1/2 definitions] |
| Palestinian |
of or pertaining to any movement to reestablish an Arab homeland in Palestine. [1/3 definitions] |
| Zion |
the Jewish people or their homeland, or the symbolic center of the Jewish nation. [1/3 definitions] |
| Zionism |
an international Jewish movement formerly for reestablishing in Palestine a Jewish national homeland, and now for supporting and developing it. |
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