deportation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
deportation
    n 1: the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men
         in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal
         colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the
         sentence was one of transportation for life" [syn: {exile},
         {deportation}, {expatriation}, {transportation}]
    2: the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deportation \De`por*ta"tion\, n. [L. depotatio: cf. F.
   d['e]portation.]
   The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being
   deported; banishment; transportation.
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         In their deportations, they had often the favor of
         their conquerors.                        --Atterbury.
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from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
DEPORTATION, civil law. Among the Romans a perpetual banishment, depriving 
the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation (q.v.) 
and exile. (q.v.). 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 125 note; Inst. 1, 12, 1 and 2; Dig. 
48, 22, 14, 1.
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