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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 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
deportation noun expulsion, exile, removal, transportation, exclusion, extradition, eviction, ejection, banishment, expatriation, debarment Thousands of immigrants are now facing deportation. Translations deportation [ˌdiːpɔːrˈteɪʃən] n [criminal] → déportation f; [illegal immigrant] → expulsion f deportation of [+ criminal] → déportation de; [+ illegal immigrant] → reconduite de deportation order n → arrêté m de reconduite à la frontière deportation n (of prisoner) → Deportation f; (of foreign national) → Abschiebung f deportation [ˌdiːpɔːˈteɪʃən] n → deportazione f deportation order → foglio di via obbligatorio deportation [ˌdiːpɔːˈteɪʃən] n → deportazione f deportation order → foglio di via obbligatorio How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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ACCOUNT OF THE DEPORTATION OF THE ACADIANS FROM "HALIBURTON'S HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NOVA SCOTIA. Two or three decades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well-meaning philanthropists were still talking and writing about the deportation of the Negroes, or about their settlement within some restricted area, or about their settling in all parts of the Union, or about their decline through their neglect of their children, or about their rapid multiplication till they should expel the whites from the South--of every sort of nonsense under heaven. Count Strzelecki states, [6] that "at the epoch of their deportation in 1835, the number of natives amounted to 210. |
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