deportation

/dipɔrˈteɪʃɪn/

/dipɔˈteɪʃən/

Other forms: deportations

Deportation is the act of throwing a foreigner out of a country, whether they are a resident or an intruder.

If you've ever heard that someone was deported — expelled from a country — then you can probably guess that deportation is the act of that happening. Deportation can involve a resident of a country who is tossed out because of a crime. Often, deportation happens to people who enter a country illegally and are caught. A citizen of a country is usually safe from deportation. Deportation means something close to exile. When you see the word deportation, think “Goodbye.”

Definitions of deportation

1. noun

   the expulsion of a non-citizen from a country
   type of:

   ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance

   the act of forcing out someone or something
2. noun

   the act of expelling a person from their native land
   “his deportation to a penal colony”

   synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation

   examples:

   Babylonian Captivity

   the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC

   type of:

   banishment, proscription

   rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone