self-evacuation
nounEtymology From self- + evacuation.
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The evacuation of a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.
- Because just about the worst thing that can happen when trains become stranded is that passengers take matters into their own hands and leave the train - self-evacuation as the report calls it.2024 August 21, Philip Haigh, “Stranded trains: problems for passengers and operators”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 52:
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- self-evacuate