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Deportation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. countable, uncountable

    "Garcia is one of many undocumented people in America who earn their living in construction. He and millions of others now face the prospect of mass deportations during President-elect Donald Trump’s term. Trump has said that undocumented immigrants share the blame for America’s once-in-a-generation home affordability crisis, but the president-elect’s deportation plans may backfire, driving up the cost of homebuying even further."

  2. 2
    the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of expelling a person from their native land wordnet

Etymology

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

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