evacuation

evacuate | American Dictionary

evacuate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ɪˈvæk·juˌeɪt/
to remove people from a dangerous place:
[ T ]Residents were ordered to evacuate the area before the hurricane made landfall.
science
Evacuate means to remove something, esp. a gas or liquid, from a container.

evacuation

noun[ C/U ]us/ɪˌvæk·juˈeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]A chemical spill prompted the evacuation of area residents.

evacuate | Business English

evacuate
verb[ I or T ]
 WORKPLACEuk /ɪˈvækjueɪt/us
to move people or to be moved from a dangerous place to somewhere safe:
be evacuated from sth
Fire broke out and all staff were evacuated from the building.

Examples of evacuate

evacuate
Instead, it was decided to evacuate the personnel by means of an airlift.
They not only had to evacuate the unit's wounded from the immediate field of battle, but also carry the wounded to the distant field hospitals.
So to evacuate a closure one simply jumps to its evacuation code, regardless of whether the closure is now a forwarding pointer or not.
Forces would be evacuated to the island where they would hold out until relieved by naval reinforcements.
But quantum field theory tells us that there is now no way at all whereby the fields can be evacuated from a chamber.
The official version was that public health concerns had led the government to evacuate provincial students from the capital.
During the first interval eight adults and no children were evacuated.
However, the ammunition still on board has to be evacuated in order to carry out further archeological work.
Members of the staff at the meteorological station insisted on being evacuated.
Let us ignore this difficulty and suppose we can totally evacuate the chamber.
Surprisingly, the authors evacuated the functional role of learning in their discussion.
The uterus should be evacuated of any placental tissue or any retained blood clots.
The planchet was placed in the extraction line and the system evacuated.
Ambulances owned by community trusts were evacuating people and admitting them to hospitals.
Overall, 142 adults and 53 children were evacuated over the 30-month period, with estimated person-time at risk being 1287 and 1350 personyears, respectively.
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