returneen.
/rᵻˌtəːˈniː/, /ˌriːtəːˈniː/, U.S. /rəˌtərˈni/, /riˌtərˈni/ A person who is returning or has returned, esp. from war service or exile. Also attributive and in extended use.
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1870 Siam Repository Jan. 44/1 The many ‘returnees’ from that Province who have applied as labourers either at Depots in the mofussil, or the city.
1919 Santa Fe Mag. Dec. 89/1 Among the latest returnees to the engineering department are Col. George A. Knapp, Captain James Vawter and Lieut. Weston S. Emley.
1944 Newsweek 17 July 62 The biography of a returnee fits into a regular pattern.
1955 Sci. News Let. 27 Aug. 142/3 They suggest a brainwashing in reverse as treatment for returnees showing symptoms of mental sickness.
1969 Daily Tel. 27 Dec. 5/2 The Communists counted 54 dead, nine taken prisoner and 31 ‘returnees’ during the truce period. A ‘returnee’ is a Viet Cong guerilla who surrenders peacefully to the South Vietnamese Government, thereby securing all citizen's privileges.
1974 W. R. Hunt North of 53° x. 60 The Klondike gold had escaped the grasp of these returnees.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xiv. 462 They..even build a run of fish by spawning more than one pair of returnees.
1988 M. M. Lock in M. M. Lock & D. R. Gordon Biomed. Examined vi. 384 The teacher suggested that Junko's mother take her to one of the special ‘treatment’ centers which have been set up in major metropolitan areas of Japan especially to deal with ‘returnee students’ (kikoku shijo) as they are collectively labelled.
2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 22 It is a city hostile to outsiders or nostalgia-stuck returnees.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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