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repatriate verb [ riːˈpatrɪeɪt ]

• send (someone) back to their own country.
• "the last German POWs were repatriated in November 1948"

repatriate noun

• a person who has been repatriated.
Origin: early 17th century (earlier (late 16th century) as repatriation ): from late Latin repatriat- ‘returned to one's country’, from the verb repatriare, from re- ‘back’ + Latin patria ‘native land’.


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