Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deported person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who was expelled from home or country by governmental authority; one who has been deported.
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- noun A
deported person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
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Examples
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And it turns out that the things that they care about the most at this moment, namely deportee issue and also human rights in the territories, apparently haven't been addressed.
Background Briefing Rabin ITY National Archives 1993
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Embassy made 'huge mistake' over Suriname deportee -- foreign minister orders probe By Oluatoyin Alleyne Officials at the Guyana Embassy in Washington DC
Stabroek News 2009
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Embassy made 'huge mistake' over Suriname deportee - 115 Comments
WN.com - Articles related to The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market 2009
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Embassy made 'huge mistake' over Suriname deportee -- foreign minister orders probe By Oluatoyin Alleyne Officials at the Guyana Embassy in Washington DC
Stabroek News 2009
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Embassy made 'huge mistake' over Suriname deportee - 115 Comments
MP3Board.com 2009
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In the end, they let me go and just sort of stamped "deportee" in my passport.
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I suspect that in retrospect the Republican party will rue the advent of its current favorite Fleet Street deportee, Amity Schlaes.
Matthew Yglesias » Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t Know When the Depression Happened 2009
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Elise Foley at the Washington Independent summed up the financial costs of rising deportation numbers and found that we spent about $9.2 billion on deportations in fiscal year 2010 alone -- at an average cost of $23,480 per deportee.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: The Burden of Record-Breaking Deportations The Media Consortium 2010
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If the deportee returns to the USA and is caught, the immigrant will serve the remainder of the original sentence plus prison time for any new criminal offenses.
Michael J. McCarthy: Cut Prison Spending First, Not Schools Michael J. McCarthy 2011
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The flights took place six months after Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan deportee, died on a British Airways plane preparing to depart from Heathrow for Angola.
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