"deportation" in the noun sense
1. exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation
the act of expelling a person from their native land
"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. deportation
the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
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