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n. - Act of removing from office or employment; To move something from its natural environment;

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  • The recent wars were responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians and forceful displacement.
  • The first paper, presented by Matthias Bernt from Berlin, usefully set out to define the term displacement - the central theme of the conference.
  • I suspect the subtext to this displacement is the dread of death.
  • There's wear and tear, and more importantly, there's what they call a displacement of not doing the things to care for yourself.
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