DEPORTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deportation mean? 

• DEPORTATION (noun)
  The noun DEPORTATION has 2 senses:

1. the act of expelling a person from their native land

2. the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

  Familiarity information: DEPORTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPORTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of expelling a person from their native land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation

Context example:

the sentence was one of transportation for life

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)

Sense 2

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)