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Definition of Repatriate

1. Verb. Send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees.

2. Noun. A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored.

3. Verb. Admit back into the country.

Definition of Repatriate

1. v. t. To restore to one's own country.

Definition of Repatriate

1. Noun. a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To restore (a person) to his or her own country. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repatriate

1. patriate [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES] - See also: patriate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repatriate

repast repaste repasted repaster repasters repastes repasting repasts repat repatch

repatched repatches repatching repatriate (current term) repatriated repatriates repatriating repatriation repatriations repats

repattern repatterned repatterning repatterns repave repaved repaver repavers

Literary usage of Repatriate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tobacco Policy Making in California 2001-2003: No Longer Finishing First edited by Jeffrey Archer, Simon Bainbridge (2003)
"APPLICATION AND AWARD PROCESS: Preapplication Coordination: repatriate informs consular office in country of departure that domestic assistance will be ..."

2. Negotiating While Fighting: The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean by Charles Turner Joy, Allan E. Goodman (1978)
"Do you mean that you would subscribe to the way our side would release & repatriate all the POWs in our custody that is roughly 11500 persons and your side ..."

3. Behind the Corporate Veil: Using Corporate Entities for Illicit Purposes by (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, OECD Staff, Oecd (2001)
"Shortly thereafter, the federal court entered a preliminary injunction against the Andersons, requiring them to repatriate all assets held outside of the ..."

4. Behind the Corporate Veil: Using Corporate Entities for Illicit Purposesby Oecd, OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope by Oecd, OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2001)
"Due to their failure to repatriate all of their assets to the United States and to provide an accounting for the trust, the federal court found the ..."

5. Behind the Corporate Veil: Using Corporate Entities for Illicit Purposes by (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, OECD Staff, Oecd (2001)
"Shortly thereafter, the federal court entered a preliminary injunction against the Andersons, requiring them to repatriate all assets held outside of the ..."

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