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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
Noun
the act of expelling someone from a country
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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
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Spanish deportation [diːpɔːˈteɪʃən] ndeportación f
French deportation [diːpɔːˈteɪʃən] ndéportation f, expulsion f
German deportation [diːpɔːˈteɪʃən] deport n (see vb) → Deportation f; Abschiebung f
Italian deportation [diːpɔːˈteɪʃən] ndeportazione f

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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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