REPATRIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repatriate mean? 

• REPATRIATE (noun)
  The noun REPATRIATE has 1 sense:

1. a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored

  Familiarity information: REPATRIATE used as a noun is very rare.

• REPATRIATE (verb)
  The verb REPATRIATE has 2 senses:

1. send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees

2. admit back into the country

  Familiarity information: REPATRIATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPATRIATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

citizen (a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community)

Derivation:

repatriate (admit back into the country)

repatriate (send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees)

• REPATRIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they repatriate    ... he / she / it repatriates   
Past simple: repatriated   
Past participle: repatriated   
-ing form: repatriating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "repatriate" is one way to...):

deliver; deport; extradite (hand over to the authorities of another country)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

repatriate (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)

repatriation (the act of returning to the country of origin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Admit back into the country

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "repatriate" is one way to...):

admit; allow in; intromit; let in (allow to enter; grant entry to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

expatriate (expel from a country)

Derivation:

repatriate (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)

repatriation (the act of returning to the country of origin)

 Context examples 

While many of the remains studied have been repatriated, the data let scientists assemble a detailed chronology of the region's Neolithic Demographic Transition, in which stone tools reflect an agricultural transition from cutting meat to pounding grain.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)