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Repatriate
01
a person who has returned to their home country after living abroad
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Human
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
repatriates
Examples
The embassy provided assistance to the repatriates stranded in the foreign country.
to repatriate
01
to return to one's own country voluntarily or naturally
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
repatriate
3rd person singular
repatriates
Present participle
repatriating
Past simple
repatriated
Past participle
repatriated
Examples
After years abroad, she repatriated to her hometown.
02
to send someone back to their country of origin, often involuntarily
Examples
The government repatriated the refugees after the conflict ended.
