deportation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of expelling a person from their native land
    exile; expatriation; transportation.
    • men in exile dream of hope
    • his deportation to a penal colony
    • the expatriation of wealthy farmers
    • the sentence was one of transportation for life
  2. noun the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

WordNet

De`por*ta"tion noun
Etymology
L. depotatio: cf.F. déportation.
Definitions
  1. The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
    In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.

Webster 1913