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[ dih-pawrt, -pohrt ] / dɪˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR deport ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to expel (an alien) from a country; banish. to send or carry off; transport, especially forcibly: The country deported its criminals. to bear, conduct, or behave (oneself) in a particular manner. Origin of deport1475–85; <Middle French déporter<Latin dēportāre to carry away, banish oneself, equivalent to dē-de- + portāre to carry; see port5 OTHER WORDS FROM deportde·port·a·ble, adjectivede·por·tee, nounde·port·er, nounnon·de·port·a·ble, adjective non·de·port·ed, adjective, nounun·de·port·ed, adjective WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH deportdeport , disportWords nearby deportdepolymerize, depone, deponent, Depo-Provera, depopulate, deport, deportation, deportee, deportment, deposal, depose Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for deportI hardly even know what to say about the petition to deport Piers Morgan, now at over 80,000 signatures. Should Piers Morgan Be Deported?|Megan McArdle|December 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST Now there's a new petition: to deport every jerkazoid who signed a secession petition. Self-Deportation, Democrat Style|Michael Tomasky|November 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST States were invited to “partner” with the federal government to identify “criminal aliens” to deport on a priority basis. Supreme Court Immigration Ruling in Arizona v. U.S. Got It Backward|Robert M. Morgenthau|July 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST But if the federal government does not want to deport the immigrants, the state cannot. Solicitor General Verrilli Fumbles on Immigration at the Supreme Court|Terry Greene Sterling|April 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Immigration can still look at those criminal records and use them to deport you. Trafficked Women’s Second Chance|Hugh Ryan|October 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST Dickory went away, not sorry, for he did not know how to deport himself with a young lady whose heart was so sorely tried. Kate Bonnet|Frank R. Stockton Mr. Soloman can deport himself on all occasions with becoming good nature. An Outcast|F. Colburn Adams Through all the trying hours of that ordeal how like a hero did he deport himself! John Brown: A Retrospect|Alfred Roe If the government will promise to deport him at once without trial, he'll spill what he knows. Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X|Victor Appleton There was no place to which he could deport her, yet to leave her would be to open the way for further mischief. Sanders of the River|Edgar Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for deport
verb (tr)to remove (an alien) forcibly from a country; expel to carry (an inhabitant) forcibly away from his homeland; transport; exile; banish to conduct, hold, or behave (oneself) in a specified manner Derived forms of deportdeportable, adjectiveWord Origin for deportC15: from French déporter, from Latin dēportāre to carry away, banish, from de- + portāre to carry Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to deportoust, relegate, expel, extradite, displace, exile, expatriate, dismiss, transport, cast out, expulse, ship out |