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repatriate
[ree-pey-tree-eyt, ree-pey-tree-it]
verb (used with object)
to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to their country or land of citizenship.
to send (profits or other assets) back to one's own country.
to restore to a country that has attained sovereignty something that was formerly held or administered on that country’s behalf by a colonial power.
In 1982, the Trudeau government repatriated Canada's constitution from Britain.
verb (used without object)
to return to one's own country.
to repatriate after 20 years abroad.
noun
a person who has been repatriated.
repatriate
verb
to send back (a refugee, prisoner of war, etc) to the country of his birth or citizenship
to send back (a sum of money previously invested abroad) to its country of origin
noun
a person who has been repatriated
Other Word Forms
- repatriable adjective
- repatriation noun
- nonrepatriable adjective
- unrepatriated adjective
- ˌ貹ٰˈپDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of repatriate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of repatriate1
Example Sentences
It also said 78 bodies of Russian soldiers had been repatriated.
This is not the first time that dead bodies have been repatriated in this conflict - thousands have already been exchanged in more than 70 separate repatriations.
Frenchman Serge Atlaoui returned to France in February after Jakarta and Paris agreed a deal to repatriate him on "humanitarian grounds" because he was ill.
"There are so many ties that bind Renty and Delia and the other enslaved people to that particular part of South Carolina that to repatriate them there would be like a homecoming ceremony."
Many of the bones have now been repatriated.
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