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DEPORTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("deportation" is a kind of...):
ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance (the act of forcing out someone or something)
Derivation:
deport (expel from a country)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of expelling a person from their native land
Example:
the sentence was one of transportation for life
Synonyms:
deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("deportation" is a kind of...):
banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
Instance hyponyms:
Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)
Derivation:
deport (expel from a country)
