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Deportation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or an instance of deporting.

n. Expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A carrying away; a removing from one country to another, or to a distant place; transportation; specifically, forcible transportation, especially to a penal colony.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of expelling a person from their native land

n. the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

Word Usage

"But, indeed, according to the Department of Homeland Security, according to the papers apparently filed by the U.S. attorney in North Carolina, it is alleged that the two Indonesian nationals were already placed in what they call deportation proceedings."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

exclusion expulsion ejection riddance

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

banishment transportation

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Alsatian Americanization Appalachian Balkanization Christianization

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

confiscation expatriation expropriation abduction banishment