Evacuation

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• Emergency evacuation, the mass movement of persons from a dangerous place due to a disaster
• Casualty movement, the procedure for moving a casualty from its initial location to an ambulance
• Casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), patient evacuation in combat situations
• Medical evacuation (MEDEVAC), evacuating a patient by plane or helicopter
• Evacuation (TV series), a children's show in the UK
• Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II
• Evacuation of East Prussia after World War II
• "Evacuation" (song), a song by Pearl Jam

Evacuation may also refer to:

• Forced migration, a coerced and often violent movement of persons away from their home region
• Defecation and or urination, especially involuntarily after death.
• the physical process of creating a vacuum
• Evacuate the Dancefloor, a 2009 single by German dance act Cascada from the album of the same name

See also

• List of World War II evacuations

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Noun

evacuation (plural evacuations)

1. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
2. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
3. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
4. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
5. Abolition; nullification.

Derived terms

• evac
• med-evac
• noncombatant evacuation operations
• tactical aeromedical evacuation