deportable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able to be deported.

   • His criminal convictions — for an attempted robbery in 2003, and for breaking into two parked cars to steal stereos in 2005 — were more than enough to make him deportable.
   • They repeatedly passed up the invitation to check a list of 96 deportable gang associates active in Nassau County against a local police database that is updated daily, he said.
2. 2

   Someone who is deportable.

   • Comparing the incidence of cases with bacillary sputum, 69.2 per cent of the deportables showed bacilli on admission, in contrast with 45 per cent among provincial cases. Outcome was poor among the deportables; 41.7 per cent died.
   • At least 50 per cent of the deportables who broke down had tuberculosis on entering Canada. Sanatorium treatment for 185 deportables cost Saskatchewan $196,- 237.25.

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