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displacement

noun as in dislocation

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The practice is rife with allegations of child labor, dangerous working conditions, community displacement, and water pollution from toxic processing chemicals.

From Quartz

So I wouldn’t say there’s been a displacement in shopper marketing spend due to the growth of e-commerce.

From Digiday

Manufacturers design each displacement level of bike with suitable engines, tech, and safety features in mind.

These machines come in a variety of different displacement levels from 50cc to 125cc.

How to figure out sizingGenerally speaking, the lower the displacement, the lower the seat height.

This spatial displacement reveals your thirst for freedom, your desire for openness and to break with the protest novel.

For those who escape direct physical injury, there remain the ill effects of displacement and deprivation.

A tense, dynamic equilibrium between the U.S. and China seems more likely than a clear displacement of the former by the latter.

The daily killing and displacement of civilians have not led to an international agreement to stop the conflict.

Palestinians call their displacement from Syria “a second Nakba,” Ellis said.

This secular displacement of the line of the apsides brings a sixth complication to the motion of our abiding-place.

They are simply well-designed boats of light displacement and large sail-area, very fast and very handy.

Instances of such displacement are given in the footnote of the previous paragraph.

In all of these cases, the movement of displacement is identical, and presents only adventitious differences.

The displacement of religious by other considerations is observable on all sides.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to displacement, such as: deracination, move, movement, rearrangement, shift, and supplanting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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