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displacement

 noun
     
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dis‧place‧ment
1 [uncountable] formalPG when a group of people or animals are forced to leave the place where they usually live
2 [singular]HPTTW technical the weight or volume of liquid that something replaces when it floats in that liquid - used especially to describe how heavy something such as a ship is
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