asylum

asylum teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill; A place of safety; The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place; {n} a refuge, sanctuary, retreat; A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege; If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons. He applied for asylum in 1987 after fleeing the police back home. = sanctuary; a hospital or other institution for housing and possibly treating mentally ill patients; a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person; 1 A sanctuary, or place of refuge, where criminals and debtors shelter themselves from justice, and from which they cannot be taken without sacrilege Temples and altars were anciently asylums; as were tombs, statues and monuments The ancient heathens allowed asylums for the protection of the vilest criminals; and the Jews had their cities of refuge 2 Any place of retreat and security; Humanitarian permission to remain in the U S; a shelter from danger or hardship; {i} shelter, refuge; hospital for the mentally ill; (a·sy·lum) NOUN: An institution for the care and/or education of people, especially those with physical or mental impairments, who were thought to require organized supervision or special methods of assistance The word also suggests a sanctuary or refuge from the outside world By the late nineteenth century, institutions that began as asylums had changed their names from asylum to hospital, school, or institute; Any place of retreat and security; The largest city on Ithria; An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum; means, literally, a place where pillage is forbidden (Greek, a (negative), sulon, right of pillage) The ancients set apart certain places of refuge, where the vilest criminals were protected, both from private and public assaults; the state of being allowed to remain in a foreign country because it would be dangerous to return to one's home country; Somewhere one can go to find safety To offer asylum means to offer protection in a safe country to people who are in danger in their own country; the position of surrogate protection provided by a state other than that of which a person is a national, by reason of the authorities in that person's home state persecuting that person or failing to protect him from persecution; n political protection given by a government to a person from another country; An asylum is a psychiatric hospital. Protection from arrest and extradition given to political refugees by a country or by an embassy that has diplomatic immunity. No one has a legal right to asylum, and the sheltering state, which has the legal right to grant asylum, is under no obligation to give it. It is thus a right of the state, not the individual. Its traditional use has been to protect those accused of political offenses such as treason, desertion, sedition, and espionage. Beginning in the 20th century, asylum also was granted to those who could demonstrate a significant risk of politically motivated persecution if they returned to their home countries
asylum seeker: Someone who flees their home country and seeks asylum in another; a refugee
asylum seekers: plural form of asylum seeker
asylum seeker: An asylum seeker is a person who is trying to get asylum in a foreign country. Fewer than 7% of asylum seekers are accepted as political refugees. someone who leaves their own country because they are in danger, especially for political reasons, and who asks the government of another country to allow them to live there refugee
asylum seeker: person who is seeking refuge
insane asylum: A facility designed where persons with serious mental disorders are housed
lunatic asylum: A facility designed where persons with serious mental disorders are housed
political asylum: The protection, by a sovereign state, of a person who is persecuted in his own country for his political opinions or activity
asylums: plural of asylum
insane asylum: mental hospital, hospital for the mentally ill
lunatic asylum: hospital for the insane
lunatic asylum: A lunatic asylum was a place where mentally disturbed people used to be locked up. a hospital where people who are mentally ill are cared for. This word is now considered to be offensive
political asylum: Political asylum is the right to live in a foreign country and is given by the government of that country to people who have to leave their own country for political reasons. a university teacher who is seeking political asylum in Britain. the right to stay in another country if you cannot live safely in your own country because of the political situation there
political asylum: arriving at a country which does not have an extradition treaty with the country one is escaping from
right of asylum: right to receive shelter, right to protection
right of asylum: The right of receiving protection within a foreign embassy or other place recognized by custom, law, or treaty