DEPORTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("deportation" is a kind of...):

ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance (the act of forcing out someone or something)

Derivation:

deport (expel from a country)

Meaning:

The act of expelling a person from their native land

Example:

the sentence was one of transportation for life

Synonyms:

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("deportation" is a kind of...):

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Instance hyponyms:

Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)

Derivation:

deport (expel from a country)