repatriation

English

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.[1] By surface analysis, repatriate +‎ -ion.

Noun

repatriation (countable and uncountable, plural repatriations)

  1. The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
  2. The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
  3. The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

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References

  1. ^ “repatriation, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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