Definitions for deportation

deportation de·por·ta·tion

Spelling: [dee-pawr-tey-shuh n, -pohr-]
IPA: /ˌdi pɔrˈteɪ ʃən, -poʊr-/

Deportation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1061 anagrams from letters in deportation (adeinooprtt).

Definitions for deportation

noun

  1. the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state.
  2. an act or instance of deporting.

Origin of deportation

1585-95; Latin dēportātiōn- (stem of dēportātiō), equivalent to dēportāt(us) (past participle of dēportāre; see deport, Examples for deportation

In 2004, the law was changed and, five years later, deportation proceedings were begun.

Prue and Idalene and Bertha he would have sentenced to deportation if he had had the jurisdiction.

After a sensational trial, the leaders were condemned to deportation.

So he looked for a remedy to emancipation followed by deportation.

You transfer your passengers to this Galactic ship for deportation to other worlds!

The deportation faced by Generals Garcia and Vides Casanova may not seem like justice to some.

I swallowed H.S. Tsien's deportation and Cold War paranoia and Joe McCarthy and the Yellow Peril and the coming war with China.

My children and I are safe now, but we will always by scarred by those twelve years of abuse and fear of deportation.

Cuellar and Cornyn wanted to expedite the deportation of the kids from Central America.

The deportation of Athanasius strengthened the position of the missionaries.

Word Value for deportation
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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