Dictionary entry

Political asylum

Pronunciation: /əˈsʌɪləm/

Pronunciation

/əˈsʌɪləm/

Myanmar Meaning

နိုင်ငံရေးခိုလှုံခွင့်

Definition

asylum /ǝ'saÇlǝm/ n ၁။ (also fml political asylum ) [U] (ႏိုင္ငံေရး) ခိုလံႈခြင့္။ seek asylum in the UK ❍ He asked the government to grant asylum to the refugees. ၂။ [C] ( dated ) စိတၱဇေဆး႐ံု။ a lunatic asylum. ❏ asylum seeker n ႏိုင္ငံေရးခိုလံႈခြင့္ေတာင္းသူ။

Examples

  1. [seek asylum] : More than half a million people sought asylum in Europe last year.
  2. [political asylum] : The number of refugees seeking political asylum has risen recently.
  3. [grant someone asylum] : Of the 1
  4. 000 refugees that initially came here
  5. only 50 were granted asylum.