What does asylum-seeker mean?

asylum-seeker

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

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"As of today, 18 Cuban asylum-seekers remained inside the Spanish Embassy, four were at an Italian diplomatic residence and three were inside the Swiss Embassy."
"“We know that we didn’t come here legally, but we didn’t have a way to do it legally,” said Sandra, an asylum-seeker who crossed the border with her son, Justin, and her husband."

asylum-seekers (plural)

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