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IELTS BNC: 22942 COCA: 20545

repatriate

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
repatriate /riˈpeɪtriˌeɪt/ Brit /riˈpætriˌeɪt/ verb
repatriates; repatriated; repatriating
repatriate
/riˈpeɪtriˌeɪt/ Brit /riˈpætriˌeɪt/
verb
repatriates; repatriated; repatriating
Learner's definition of REPATRIATE
[+ object]
: to return (someone) to his or her own country把…遣返回国
business : to send (money) back to your own country把(资金)调回本国

— repatriation

/riˌpeɪtriˈeɪʃən/ Brit /riˌpætriˈeɪʃən/ noun, plural repatriations
[count]
[noncount]
IELTS BNC: 22942 COCA: 20545

repatriate

verb

re·​pa·​tri·​ate (ˌ)rē-ˈpā-trē-ˌāt How to pronounce repatriate (audio)
-ˈpa-
repatriated; repatriating

transitive verb

: to restore or return to the country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship
repatriate prisoners of war
repatriate
(ˌ)rē-ˈpā-trē-ət How to pronounce repatriate (audio)
-trē-ˌāt
-ˈpa-
noun

Example Sentences

Countries are required to repatriate prisoners of war when conflict has ended.
Recent Examples on the Web Last summer, in fact, the Justice Department had indicted a group of Iranian agents who plotted to kidnap Alinejad, presumably to repatriate her to Iran for execution. The Editors, National Review, 12 Aug. 2022 Operation Identification, a humanitarian program at Texas State University, in San Marcos, run by Kate Spradley, a forensic anthropologist, has been working to locate these graves, disinter the bodies for DNA testing, and repatriate them. Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022 And in November of 2021, the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, removed all of its Benin bronzes from display and announced plans to repatriate them. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022 Tayler, of Human Rights Watch, urged the country to repatriate all its citizens and to prosecute them as appropriate. BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022 While most have Iraqi or Syrian mothers, thousands come from about 51 other countries, including European nations that have been reluctant to repatriate them. New York Times, 19 July 2022 Take, for example, the long-standing fight to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022 The Smithsonian is not the first museum to repatriate art to Benin. Emily Burack, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2022 Chapman tells News 9’s Jonathan Cooper that Harvard ultimately agreed to not only repatriate the tomahawk but also the funerary artifacts of a Ponca woman. Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin repatriatus, past participle of repatriare to go home again — more at repair entry 3

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of repatriate was in 1611
IELTS BNC: 22942 COCA: 20545
repatriate

verb

ADVERB | PREPOSITION ADVERBforcibly強行遣返PREPOSITIONfrom, to從⋯遣返;遣返回⋯The refugees were forcibly repatriated from Hongkong to Vietnam.難民們被強行從香港遣返回越南去了。

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