deport

Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɔɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɔːt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpoɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpoət/

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deport (third-person singular simple present deports, present participle deporting, simple past and past participle deported)

1. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
   • December 30, 1710, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell:

     Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.

2. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.

   Ask her to deport all illegals living in this town without a green card or the appropriate documents that prove their naturalized citizenship.

   • 2019, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban:

     Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico.

   • 2021 February 12, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFP:

     Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.

   • 2025 April 8, John Fritze, “Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In another case pending at the Supreme Court, the administration conceded it made an error in deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador last month but is fighting efforts to bring him back to the US.

• de trop, ported, red top, red-top, redtop, troped

Deverbal from deportar

deport m (plural deports)

1. recreation
   • 1948, Josep Pous i Pagès, De la pau i del combat.:

     Sovint els gossos s'apleguen a colles per carrers i places. Són les seves festes majors i fires. S'hi diverteixen voltant llarga estona l'un darrera l'altre, el nas just on comença la cua del que tenen davant, i altres deports d'igual estranya mena per qui no ha estat mai iniciat en tals delícies.

     Often the dogs form packs in the streets and squares. These are their major festivals and fairs. They amuse themselves for a long time chasing each other, the nose of one right where the tail of the one before begins, and other recreations equally strange for someone who hasn't been initiated into such delights.

• “deport”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “deport” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2025.

• desport

deport oblique singular, m (oblique plural deporz or deportz, nominative singular deporz or deportz, nominative plural deport)

1. enjoyment; fun
   • c. 1200, Unknown author, Aucassin et Nicolette:

     Qui vauroit bons vers oïr
     del deport du viel antif

     Who would like to hear a few good lines
     Of amusement from the old storyteller

• → Catalan: deport
• → Middle English: disport, disporte
  • ⇒ Middle English: sport, spoort, sporte
    • English: sport (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: sport
• → Portuguese: desporto, desporte
• → Spanish: deporto

deport m (oblique plural deports, nominative singular deports, nominative plural deport)

1. enjoyment; fun
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Ges de chantar no.m pren talans

     Que d'aqui mou deportz e chans

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