deportverb [ T ]
uk/dɪˈpɔːt/us/dɪˈpɔːrt/to force someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law:
Thousands of illegal immigrants are caught and deported every year.
The refugees were deported back to their country of origin.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Punishing someone by sending them somewhere else
- banish
- deportee
- exile
- expatriate
- expel
- expulsion
- extraordinary rendition
- rid
- send
- send sb down
- send sb off
- shun
- transport
deportation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌdiː.pɔːˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdiː.pɔːrˈteɪ.ʃən/
There were mass deportations in the 1930s, when thousands of people were forced to leave the country.