repatriation
The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenshipThe process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
» Repatriation flights are helping Australians who have been trapped overseas.
Im Ausland festsitzenden Australiern wird mit Heimholungsflügen geholfen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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3 senses(countable, uncountable)The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
Repatriierung
репатриа́цияrepatriácija
репатріа́ціяrepatriácija
the act of returning to the country of origin
(countable, uncountable)The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
(countable, uncountable)The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
Examples
1 sentencesRepatriation flights are helping Australians who have been trapped overseas.
deIm Ausland festsitzenden Australiern wird mit Heimholungsflügen geholfen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
Either a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to tEither a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to their homeland”) or from Italian repatriazione and remodelled after words in -ation. By surface analysis, repatriate + -ion.
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Forms
plural: repatriations| Singular | repatriation |
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Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable