voluntary evacuation

collocation in English

meaningsofvoluntaryandevacuation

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voluntary
adjective
uk
/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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evacuation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ɪˌvæk.juˈeɪ.ʃən/
the act of moving people from a dangerous place to ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandevacuationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The arrangements made were entirely forvoluntaryevacuation.
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I find myself much interested involuntaryevacuation.
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In eloquent language, and in a very clear manner, he gave the case forvoluntaryevacuation.
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There is also the question of thevoluntaryevacuationof school children accompanied by their teachers.
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Thevoluntaryevacuationscheme was set up last year to enable islanders to come to this country.
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Surely, if we are agreed that the safety of the islanders is paramount, the risk of a "cataclysmic-intensive eruption"merited more than"limitedvoluntaryevacuation"?
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Within the facilities available, every effort will be made to provide supplies of petrol for transport used for thevoluntaryevacuationof children.
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About 10,000 left the off-limits area during thevoluntaryevacuationperiod, and avoided internment.
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Avoluntaryevacuationorder was issued for those areas, but there was no damage.
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After the island's farmers signed the papers, they realized that in fact they had agreed to theirvoluntaryevacuation.
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After thevoluntaryevacuationprogram failed to entice many families to leave the exclusion zone, the military took charge of the now-mandatory evacuation.
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Untouched for many years, a carefree attitude led many residents to view mandatory evacuations as voluntary andvoluntaryevacuationorders as nothing at all.
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The resulting fireball created a massive cloud of black smoke, which prompted authorities to issue avoluntaryevacuationof the city and surrounding area as a precaution.
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By the evening of the first day of the fire, no part was contained, according to local fire officials, and the county was put undervoluntaryevacuation.
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The threat of further blasts and concerns about the air quality forced the police to conduct avoluntaryevacuationof a large area in the surrounding community.
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