deporteenoun [ C ]
uk/ˌdiː.pɔːˈtiː/us/ˌdiː.pɔːrˈtiː/a person who has been or is waiting to be deported
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Punishing someone by sending them somewhere else
- banish
- deport
- exile
- expatriate
- expel
- expulsion
- extraordinary rendition
- rid
- send
- send sb down
- send sb off
- shun
- transport
Examples from literature
- All the accounts agree, even on the smallest details, and the deportees who have been able to write to their families tell the same story as those who, being henceforth useless, have been sent home to die.
- It had been a rocket-maintenance hangar once, then had been turned into temporary dwelling for the first deportees, when Earth began flooding Mars.