Evacuation
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Evacuation may refer to:
- Emergency evacuation, the mass movement of persons from a dangerous place due to a disaster
- Patient evacuation, 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 (Israeli politics), the forced removal of Jewish people in territory handed over to Arabs
- 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 may also refer to:
- Forced migration, a coerced and often violent movement of persons away from their home region
- Defecation
- the physical process of creating a vacuum