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/ripˈeɪtriˌeɪt/ Listen

Repatriate

verb

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

Admit back into the country.

noun

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

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"Repatriate" Quotes from Famous Books

... relations for the rest of his life. For a year or two he lived chiefly in Paris or at a country house at Courtavenel in Brie, which belonged to Madame Viardot; but in 1850 he returned to Russia. His experiences were not such as to induce him to repatriate himself permanently. He found Dostoevsky banished to Siberia and Bielinski dead; and himself under suspicion by the government on account of the popularity of "A Sportsman's Sketches." For praising Gogol, who had just ...

— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... the rest. They who know only themselves and avoid contact with others go backwards; they who welcome new impressions and compare the ideas of other men with their own, make progress. Open your arms to the immigrants who come, while you endeavour to repatriate your own people; there is room enough here for all; continue to make the country to the north of you a second line of wealth-giving lands for the first line formed by the valley of the St. Lawrence. Remember ...

— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell