asyluma‧sy‧lum /əˈsaɪləm/ ●○○ noun 
He has been granted asylum in France. → political asylum2[countable] old use a mental hospital
WORD ORIGINasylum
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin, Greek asylon, from asylos ‘not able to be seized’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Cubans who reach the U.S. are usually granted asylum.
- Gypsies from Eastern Europe have sought asylum in Britain.
- The government described them as economic refugees who have no legal claim to asylum.
- They have sought political asylum in the United States.
- About 17, 500 people were granted asylum, out of 154, 000 asylum applications filed.
- In May, after months of bickering, parliament amended the asylum law.
- It had apparently been hoped that the numbers of long-term patients suffering from dementia would diminish with the rundown of the asylums.
- She thinks of the Periodicals room as an asylum for homesick aliens.
- She was almost a whole world to him, a country that had offered asylum.
- The Victorian asylum movement was successful largely because of a unanimity of views on the subject by most men of influence.
- Would we recognize that as ground for asylum?
Longman Language Activatorto protect someone by providing a place where they are safe from danger
to provide a place where someone is protected, for example from danger or from the weather: · Police are appealing to anyone who may be sheltering the wanted man to come forward.shelter somebody from something: · They risked their own lives sheltering Jews from the Nazis.· An umbrella sheltered them from the sun.
to protect someone who is in danger or being hunted by someone who wants to harm them, by giving them a safe place to stay: · The British government has been accused of giving shelter to known war criminals.· During the war, she gave refuge and arms to local resistance groups.
protection given to someone by a government because they have escaped from fighting or political trouble in their own country: · The government described them as economic refugees who have no legal claim to asylum.seek asylum (=ask for asylum): · Gypsies from Eastern Europe have sought asylum in Britain.grant somebody asylum (=give it to them officially): · Cubans who reach the U.S. are usually granted asylum.political asylum: · They have sought political asylum in the United States.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He has been granted asylum in France.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Refugees were seeking political asylum in Britain. No country would grant (=give) him political asylum.
1[uncountable] protection given to someone by a government because they have escaped from fighting or political trouble in their own countryapply for/seek/be granted asylum He has been granted asylum in France. Refugees were seeking political asylum in Britain. No country would grant (=give) him political asylum. (=try to find somewhere safe)· They sought refuge inside the castle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Mr. Winnick Is the Home Secretary aware that the argument is not about bogus asylum seekers?· A new Act will guarantee sanctuary to genuine refugees but prevent bogus applications for asylum.
· Those claimants undermine the claims of genuine asylum seekers, and no one would wish to defend them.· We will introduce improved welfare and legal rights for genuine asylum seekers and establish substantive rights of appeal.· I do not believe that the genuine asylum seeker will be treated fairly.
· I wondered if they were there to prevent jumpers, like in an insane asylum.· I am interactive with an insane asylum.· Steps were taken to improve prisons and insane asylums and to check juvenile delinquency.
· On arrival at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport he immediately applied for political asylum.· Mr RuizMassieu recently requested political asylum.· He intended to go to New York to seek political asylum.· The Foreign Ministry said it had not received any immediate request for political asylum.· The issue of political asylum is, of course, being debated in relation to a Bill which is currently going through the House.· Her parents were granted political asylum in the United States in 1948 following a Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.· I want the House to consider the circumstances under which people seek political asylum.· I interceded with an influential friend to gain the youth political asylum.
· But I find them particularly disturbing when related to the death of a refugee seeking asylum in Britain.· When people are seeking asylum they shouldn't have to put up with this.· That campaign is racist in intent and is against the interests of people who are seeking asylum from situations of great danger.
NOUN· Finger-printing will be introduced for asylum applicants, to prevent multiple applications and fraudulent benefit claims.
· Of the 40,000 asylum applications made last year, nine out of 10 were unfounded.· About 17, 500 people were granted asylum, out of 154, 000 asylum applications filed.· The process of accepting or rejecting his asylum application hasn't even begun.· They claim that some asylum applications are not even recorded, because the foreigner concerned is deported before seeing a magistrate.· We should be supporting the right to seek independent legal advice in support of an asylum application.· The processing of asylum applications was to be accelerated.· Outside the stadium, however, the competitors excelled-clocking up a potentially world-beating 106 asylum applications.
· Those who are making asylum claims should have access to free professional legal advice, as they want it.· It is also right that, as we have been urging, the asylum claims should be examined more expeditiously.· The current average waiting timeto determine whether an asylum claim is genuine is 13 months.· Even without the asylum claims, the games were distinguished more by events off the track than on.
· In May, after months of bickering, parliament amended the asylum law.· But the Left claims that the Chancellor is simply pandering to the far-Right by tampering with the asylum laws.· It is necessary to provide a proper asylum law to make sure that genuine refugees can be dealt with speedily and adequately.· They have coincided with a sharp rise in refugees taking advantage of liberal asylum laws.· In the past six years there have been three asylum laws stiffening up procedures.
· It is crucial that asylum policy is aligned on best practice, not the least generous.· But the council also said that frequent changes in immigration and asylum policies had played a fundamental and negative role.· End 1993: Governments to decide unanimously whether to deal with asylum policy as a Community issue.
· In the United States we don't have asylum seekers, we have immigrants.· They should have done more for asylum seekers.· The Bill deals with the treatment of asylum seekers and procedures for determining their claims.· He says we feel the numbers justify the claim that prison is being used in a strategic way against asylum seekers.· What has forced airline staff to take on this policing role of checking the travel documents of would-be asylum seekers?· It is assumed that the asylum seeker will receive that notification the day after it is posted.· Clause 7 raises the question whether the asylum seeker wishes to submit any variation or amplification of the notice of appeal.
VERB· On arrival at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport he immediately applied for political asylum.· If they did, they could apply for political asylum and remain for years while their cases were pending.· Even this can affect refugees adversely - their stories of torture may not be believed when they apply for asylum.· Fearful of returning to what was then the Soviet Union, she applied for asylum, a request that was denied.
· At the same time, though, it has carefully refrained from protesting at the decision to grant the boy asylum.· The Korbel family was granted political asylum in the United States in 1948, at a time when Albright was 11.· They will grant you asylum, Mikhail - in exchange for your aircraft and your knowledge of it.· Her parents were granted political asylum in the United States in 1948 following a Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.· Refugees granted asylum or allowed to stay made up a small proportion-just over 10,000 in 1999.· About 17, 500 people were granted asylum, out of 154, 000 asylum applications filed.· Her husband was granted political asylum in the United States in 1996.
· The difficulties are most acute for those associations specialising in short-term accommodation and for those finding housing for refugees and asylum seekers.· In the northern city of Greifswald, a kindergarten to be used to house refugees seeking asylum was burned down.
· Many might seek to use the asylum route and, indeed, it would be naive to think otherwise.· Previously, people who sought asylum were often granted work authorization immediately.· Mr. King Is my right hon. Friend aware of the widespread concern at the large number of people seeking political asylum?· In the northern city of Greifswald, a kindergarten to be used to house refugees seeking asylum was burned down.· The bill also contains measures that would make it more difficult for refugees from persecution to seek asylum in the United States.· I want the House to consider the circumstances under which people seek political asylum.· Fugitive slaves continued to seek asylum in Florida, even after the First Seminole War.
He has been granted asylum in France. → political asylum2[countable] old use a mental hospital