DEPORTATION • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Deportation

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dˌipɔrtˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Deportation

noun

The act of expelling a person from their native land. Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation. "His deportation to a penal colony" , "The expatriation of wealthy farmers" , "The sentence was one of transportation for life"

The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien.

See more definitions of Deportation...

See images of 'Deportation'

Etymology of 'Deportation'

Share |

"Deportation" Quotes from Famous Books

... different Nationalist parties were all but united on a common platform. Extremist leaders have the power of compelling even their friends to deport them and treat them as enemies, and I assume that Zaghlul put Lord Allenby under this compulsion, when he decided that his deportation was necessary. But Zaghlul was one of the few Nationalist leaders who were of peasant origin, and his followers stand for something that needs to be strongly represented in the Government if it is not to take its complexion merely from the towns and the wealthy interests. The fellah ...

— Essays in Liberalism - Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the - Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 • Various

... bad relations between the two countries at the constant risk of war because it suits the interest of his Protectionist Ring. The upper classes of Europe in the same spirit applauded what they called the salvation of society by the coup d'etat, the massacre on the Boulevards and the lawless deportation of the leaders of the working men in France. In the main however I repeat the present movement has been legal and pacific and so long as there is no violence, so long as no weapons but those of argument are employed, so long as law and reason reign, matters ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... movement lived there). As a result of this unrest there was a marked cooling-off in cordiality amongst the visitors to Yerandawana when plague broke out again in the city, and the annual exodus took place. The deportation to a distance of one of the leaders on the side of discontent in the city, for a period of some years, was the chief ground of local resentment. Boy friends of previous years held aloof; elder brothers, of the student class, were ...

— India and the Indians • Edward F. Elwin

... extremist faction in Berlin might gain control and withdraw the Sussex pledge. The temper of Americans was being tried by continued sinkings, although the exact circumstances of each case were difficult to determine. The attacks made by the German U-53 immediately off the American coast and the deportation of Belgian civilians into Germany made more difficult the preservation of amicable relations. In view of the possibility of war Wilson wanted to define the issue exactly. "We have never yet," he said at Omaha, a peace center, on the 5th of October, "sufficiently formulated ...

— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... had failed to protect her. Certainly the immigration laws might do better than to send a girl back to her parents, diseased and disgraced because America has failed to safeguard her virtue from the machinations of well-known but unrestrained criminals. The possibility of deportation on the charge of prostitution is sometimes utilized by jealous husbands or rejected lovers. Only last year a Russian girl came to Chicago to meet her lover and was deceived by a fake marriage. Although the man basely deserted her within ...

— A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil • Jane Addams

More quotes...