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deport

/dɪˈpɔːt/

/dɪˈpɔrt/

deportverb

deported

Past Simple

deported

Past Participle

deporting

ing-form

/dɪˈpɔːt/

/dɪˈpɔrt/

Translations

The government decided to deport the individual after discovering he had entered the country illegally.

Le gouvernement a décidé d'expulser l'individu après avoir découvert qu'il était entré illégalement dans le pays.

Additional translations

se comporterSoutenu, vieilli.

Definitions

To expel a foreigner from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime.

The government decided to deport the individual after discovering he had entered the country illegally.

To conduct oneself in a specified manner; to behave (usually followed by an adverb or prepositional phrase), now formal or archaic.

Throughout the trial he deported himself with remarkable dignity.

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