Asylum - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person (syn: institution)
Extra examples
She asked for political asylum.
She was granted asylum after it was made clear that she would be killed if she returned to her native country.
He has been granted asylum in France.
During the war, she sought asylum in Spain.
They sought asylum and were given refugee status by the government.
...a nation with a long, honorable history of refuging political asylum seekers...
...made offers of aid to the refugees, and of asylum in extremity...
It is talked of placing me into asylum.
The majority of those who claim asylum are genuine refugees.
They inflicted a heavy defeat on the Government's plans to tighten asylum controls.
Asylum seekers were entering Britain at a rate of 1,600 per day.
The number of people seeking asylum in Britain has risen sharply.
He was committed to a lunatic asylum
Word forms
singular: asylum
plural: asylums
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