repatriate
to send someone back to their home country
TRANSLATION
in die Heimat zurücksenden
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"According to Michael Mansfield QC - if there is no evidence linking the suspects to the attacks on the 11th September, they should be treated as soldiers and REPATRIATED to Afghanistan."
(The Independent - Feb 2002)
(The Independent - Feb 2002)
Did you
know?
re-pa-tri-ate
Repatriate is from the Late Latin repatriatus, past participle of repatriare to go back to one's country. It first appeared in English in 1611.
Main meaning : to restore or return to the country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship (i.e. repatriate prisoners of war)
Related to repatriate is the noun "expatriate" which translates rather inelegantly as
"ständig im Ausland lebende Person".
Repatriate is from the Late Latin repatriatus, past participle of repatriare to go back to one's country. It first appeared in English in 1611.
Main meaning : to restore or return to the country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship (i.e. repatriate prisoners of war)
Related to repatriate is the noun "expatriate" which translates rather inelegantly as
"ständig im Ausland lebende Person".
