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repatriation

noun

Etymology

Either 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.

  1. borrowed from repatriazione
  2. learned borrowing from repatriātiō

Definitions

  1. The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.

  2. The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.

  3. The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

The neighborhood

Derived

patriation, repatriational

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for repatriation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA