Extradite Definition

ĕkstrə-dīt
extradited, extraditing
verb
extradited, extraditing
To give up or deliver (a fugitive, for example) to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority.
American Heritage
To turn over as according to procedures established in an existing treaty (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the country having jursidiction over that crime.
Webster's New World
To obtain the extradition of.
Webster's New World
To transfer through legal process a captured fugitive to the jurisdiction where he or she is sought.
Webster's New World Law

To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.

Wiktionary

Origin of Extradite

  • Back-formation from extradition. (Source: SOED 1983.)

    From Wiktionary

  • Back-formation from extradition

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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