deport
verb/dɪˈpɔːt/
/dɪˈpɔːrt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they deport | /dɪˈpɔːt/ /dɪˈpɔːrt/ |
| he / she / it deports | /dɪˈpɔːts/ /dɪˈpɔːrts/ |
| past simple deported | /dɪˈpɔːtɪd/ /dɪˈpɔːrtɪd/ |
| past participle deported | /dɪˈpɔːtɪd/ /dɪˈpɔːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form deporting | /dɪˈpɔːtɪŋ/ /dɪˈpɔːrtɪŋ/ |
- deport somebody to force somebody to leave a country, usually because they have broken the law or because they have no legal right to be there
- He was convicted of drug offences and deported.
- Many refugees were forcibly deported back to the countries they had come from.
- The government refused to grant them refugee status and deported them.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
- to
- from
Word Originlate 16th cent. (referring to behaviour): from French déporter, from Latin deportare, from de- ‘away’ + portare ‘carry’.Want to learn more?
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