Repatriate

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  • transitive verb. To restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin.
  • noun. One who has been repatriated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To restore to one's own country.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To restore to one's own country.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored.
  • verb. To restore (a person) to his or her own country.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored
  • verb. send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees
  • verb. admit back into the country
  • Word Usage
    "The way we do it now is that when a multinational brings the money they earned overseas back home -- when they "repatriate" it, to use the more technical term -- we tax it at whatever the difference is between our corporate-tax rate and the corporate-tax rate they've already paid."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    admit  allow in  citizen  deliver  deport  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    verb-form