repatriation
Meanings
noun
- The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
- The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
- The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
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Etymology
Either a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to their homeland”) or from Italian repatriazione and remodelled after words in -ation. By surface analysis, repatriate + -ion.
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