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deportation

DEFINITIONS OF: deportation

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n the act of expelling a person from their native land

“his deportation to a penal colony”
Synonyms:
exile, expatriation, transportation
Examples:
Babylonian Captivity
the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC
Type of:
banishment, proscription
rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

n the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

Type of:
ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
the act of forcing out someone or something
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