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deportation

UK/diːˌpɔːˈteɪʃən/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,147 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: deportations

Deportation is forcing a foreign national to leave the country. A deportation order, face deportation, deportation flight.

It is a legal process with appeal rights, and it is distinguished in British law from removal, which applies to people with no leave to remain. Deportation usually follows a criminal conviction or a decision that a person's presence is not conducive to the public good. Note deportee; and that deport, from the Latin for carrying away, once simply meant to behave, which survives in deportment.

Definitions of deportation

  1. 1noundeportationForcing a foreign national to leave the country.B2+

    “He faced deportation after his visa ran out.”

deportation is a forced removal.

Where it comes from

Latin deportatio comes from deportare, to carry away — de plus portare, to carry. Export, portable and deportment come from the same carrying.

  1. Middle French

    déportation

  2. English, today

    deportation

From Middle French déportation, equivalent to deport + -ation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Crime & Law

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deportation in the wild

  • The Turkish government maintains that the deportation of Armenians was a legitimate action that cannot be described as genocide.

    Armenian genocide

  • A person who has been deported or is under sentence of deportation is called a deportee.

    Deportation

  • Contemporary historians classify these deportations as a crime against humanity and ethnic persecution.

    Population transfer in the Soviet Union

  • The deportations began after the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, which occurred in June 1940.

    Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

  • The deportation of Armenian intellectuals is conventionally held to mark the beginning of the Armenian genocide.

    Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.