Repatriate

Definitions: Repatriate

Repatriate

Noun

1. A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored.

Verb

1. Send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees.

2. Admit back into the country.

Date "repatriate" was first used: 1611. (references)

Antonym: expatriate (v). (additional references)

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Prisoners of war or other German nationals who do not desire to be repatriated may be excluded from repatriation; but the Allied and Associated Governments reserve to themselves the right either to repatriate them or to take them to a neutral country or to allow them to reside in their own territories. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Chad	Chadian refugees legally are free to repatriate. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	At year's end, plans prior to September 11 to repatriate Afghan and Iraqi refugees were deferred. (references)
	Costa Rica	The authorities regularly repatriate undocumented Nicaraguans, most of whom enter the country primarily for economic reasons. (references)
Economic History	Nicaragua	Banks freely repatriate profits. (references)
	India	A foreign company establishing a liaison office cannot repatriate money out of India. (references)
	Ecuador	Investors may also repatriate the proceeds from liquidation of their investments freely. (references)
Human Rights	Eritrea	The Government continued to repatriate Ethiopians to Ethiopia during the year. (references)
	Georgia	Officials have agreed to joint efforts to determine their location and repatriate the remains of the dead. (references)
Political Economy	Indonesia	Those who choose not to repatriate will be resettled in Indonesia. (references)
Trade	Nepal	Promoters can sell their shares and repatriate capital. (references)
	Nicaragua	Registered foreign investors are allowed to re-export equipment and machinery as well as to repatriate capital. (references)
	Egypt	Under this law, exporters and tourism companies are no longer obliged to repatriate their foreign exchange proceeds to Egypt. (references)
Worker Rights	Bosnia and Herzegovina	The IOM has established a program to repatriate trafficked women who seek to return home. (references)
	Honduras	Honduran authorities did not repatriate any of the minors involved despite 2000 press reports that indicated the Government was taking action. (references)
	Honduras	In July the Government announced that it was working with the Government of Mexico to repatriate over 200 Honduran minors working as prostitutes in southern Mexico. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Repatriate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Repatriate" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	28	65,706

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "repatriate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		riatdhesues, riatdhesoj, kthej në atdhe. (various references)

Arabic		‏أعاد الى وطنه, ‏شخص معاد لوطنه. (various references)

Bulgarian		репатриран, репатрирам, репатриант. (various references)

Chinese		遣�"回国. (various references)

Czech		repatriovat, poslat zpìt do vlasti. (various references)

Farsi		بمیهن خودبرگرداندن , بمیهن خودبرگشتن . (various references)

French		rapatrier, rapatrié. (various references)

German		repatriierter, repatriieren (renaturalize). (various references)

Greek		πολιτογραφώ πάλι, επαναπατρίζω, επαναφέρω εισ την πατρίδα. (various references)

Hebrew		לחזור למול�"ת, ל�"חזיר למול�"ת. (various references)

Hungarian		hazatelepített személy. (various references)

Italian		rimpatriare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		引き揚�'者 (a repatriate, returnee). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひきあ�'しゃ (a repatriate, returnee). (various references)

Korean		송환하십시�". (various references)

Manx		cur er ash gys cheer (repatriation). (various references)

Pig Latin		epatriateray

Portuguese		repatriar. (various references)

Romanian		repatria, se repatria. (various references)

Russian		репатриант, репатриировать, возвращаться на родину. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rapartrirac, vratiti se u otadžbinu, povratnik (backspace, recuperator, repeater, returnee, tropic), povratnički. (various references)

Spanish		repatriar. (various references)

Swedish		repatrierad person, repatriera. (various references)

Thai		ส่งเงินกลับประเทศ, ส่งคนกลับประเทศ, คนที่ถูกส่งกลับประเทศ (repatriation). (various references)

Turkish		vatanına geri gönderilen kimse, tekrar ülkesinin vatandaşlığına girmek, ülkesine iade etmek, ülkesine iade edilen kimse, ülkesine geri göndermek. (various references)

Ukranian		репатріюватися, репатріювати, репатріант. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	re-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "repatriate": repatriated, repatriates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Repatriate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: repatriare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "repatriate" (pronounced rēpā"trēā't)
7	-p ā" t r ē ā' t	expatriate.
4	-r ē ā' t	excoriate, expropriate, infuriate, misappropriate, recreate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, expiate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, renegotiate, renunciate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: patterer, preterit, pretreat, prettier.
	-3 letters: apatite, apteria, arietta, ariette, iterate, pareira, partier, partita, partite, pearter, peatier, pettier, rattier, rattrap, retreat, taperer, tearier, treater, tripart.
	-4 letters: aerate, aerier, artier, attire, errata, irater, pattee, patter, pattie, pereia, perter, petite, petter, pirate, prater, rapier, ratite, ratter, reaper, repair, repeat, retape, retear, retire, ritter, tapeta, tartar, tarter.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: repatriated, repatriates.
	+4 letters: interplanetary, multiparameter, transparentize.
	+5 letters: intraperitoneal, semitransparent, transparentized, transparentizes.
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