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repatriation

re·pat·ria·tion

US/riˌpeɪtriˈeɪʃʌn/ rare

noun

1.

the act of returning to the country of origin

Origin

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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