Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deportation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deportation \De`por*ta"tion\, n. [L. depotatio: cf. F.
d['e]portation.]
The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being
deported; banishment; transportation.
In their deportations, they had often the favor of
their conquerors. --Atterbury.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deportation
n : the act of expelling a person from their native land [syn: {exile},
{expatriation}]
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