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Noun: deportation  ,dee,por'tey-shun
  1. The act of expelling a person from their native land
    "his deportation to a penal colony";
    - exile, expatriation, transportation
     
  2. The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

Derived forms: deportations

Type of: banishment, ejection, exclusion, expulsion, proscription, riddance

Encyclopedia: Deportation

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