verb (v)

• cause to move, usually with force or pressure(verb.motion)

  Example:
  The refugees were displaced by the war.
  

  source: wordnet30
• take the place of or have precedence over(verb.social)

  Synonym:
  preempt
  

  source: wordnet30
• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position(verb.social)

  Synonym:
  can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate
  Antonym:
  employ, engage, hire
  

  source: wordnet30
• cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense(verb.motion)

  Synonym:
  move
  

  source: wordnet30
• To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.(verb)

  source: webster1913