Deportation

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  • noun. The act or an instance of deporting.
  • noun. Expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A carrying away; a removing from one country to another, or to a distant place; transportation; specifically, forcible transportation, especially to a penal colony.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
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  • noun. The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of expelling a person from their native land
  • noun. the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
    • Word Usage
    "As I've said, the Campaign and the lawyers working with the resisters use the term deportation, so I follow suit."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ejection  exclusion  expulsion  riddance  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abduction  annulment  assassinations  banishment  butchery  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    banishment  transportation  
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