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deportation
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de·por·ta·tion  (dpôr-tshn, -pr-)
n.
1. The act or an instance of deporting.
2. Expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country.

deportation [ˌdiːpɔːˈteɪʃən]
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the act of transporting someone from his country; banishment
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Noun1.deportation - the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
2.deportation - the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
expulsion, riddance, ejection, exclusion - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"

deportation
noun expulsion, exile, removal, transportation, exclusion, extradition, eviction, ejection, banishment, expatriation, debarment Thousands of immigrants are now facing deportation.
Translations
deportation [ˌdiːpɔːˈteɪʃən]
A. Ndeportación f
B. CPD deportation order Norden f de deportación
deportation [ˌdiːpɔːrˈteɪʃən] n [criminal] → déportation f; [illegal immigrant] → expulsion f
deportation of [+ criminal] → déportation de; [+ illegal immigrant] → reconduite de
deportation order narrêté m de reconduite à la frontière
deportation
n (of prisoner)Deportation f; (of foreign national)Abschiebung f
deportation [ˌdiːpɔːˈteɪʃən] ndeportazione f
deportation order → foglio di via obbligatorio


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Most of the rest were sent to the Treblinka death camp in northeast Poland in mass deportations in 1942.
Large German communities had lived in Russia since the 18th century, when they were invited by Catherine the Great, but after 1941 Stalin doubted their loyalty and ordered their mass deportation to remote regions.
In the same vein, Israeli historian Benny Morris, imagining a scenario in which Israel was invaded by a neighbouring country, proposed that such a situation would justify the mass deportation of the Palestinians of the 1948 areas.
 
 
 
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