deportation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: deportation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deportation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deportation n the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life" Synonym(s): exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deportation \De`por*ta"tion\, n. [L. depotatio: cf. F. d[82]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.