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Deportation - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Deportation : (noun)
1: 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" [syn: exile,
expatriation, transportation]
2: the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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DEPORTATION, civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving
the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation (q.v.)
and exile. (q.v.). 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 125 note; Inst. 1, 12, 1 and 2; Dig.
48, 22, 14, 1.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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