Repatriate Definition

rē-pātrē-āt
repatriated, repatriates, repatriating
verb
repatriated, repatriates, repatriating
To send back or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or allegiance.
To repatriate prisoners of war.
Webster's New World
To restore (a person) to his or her own country.
Wiktionary
Antonyms:
noun
repatriates
A person who has been repatriated.
Webster's New World
A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored.
Wiktionary

Origin of Repatriate

  • Late Latin repatriāre repatriāt- to return to one's country Latin re- re- Latin patria native country expatriate

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

  • Latin repatriare. Cognate to repair (“to return").

    From Wiktionary

Repatriate Sentence Examples

  • Then in September the Argonaut sailed for Shanghai to repatriate British internees.

  • These countries do not have the means to seal their borders or repatriate refugees.

  • The trusts appeared to work when the foreign trustee refused to repatriate the assets pursuant to the courts ' orders.

  • It would not repatriate a single power back from the EU to national parliaments.

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Words Starting With

RREREP

Words Ending With

ETEATE

Unscrambles

repatriate

Words Starting With R and Ending With E

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