Dictionary

repatriate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/ (UK, uncommon)
• /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/ (US)
• /ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin repatriare, from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repair (“to return”).

Meanings

1. A person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.

Forms

Translations (16)

cmn 被遣返回国者 (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · mk репатри́рец (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · kk оралман (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · it rimpatriato (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · sk repatriant (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · pl repatriantka (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · ru репатриа́нтка (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · sk repatriantka (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · mk по́вратник (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · mk репатри́рка (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · el επαναπατρισμένος (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · kk ورالمان (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · mk повра́тничка (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · bg възвращенец (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · pl repatriant (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored) · ru репатриа́нт (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)

repatriate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/ (UK, uncommon)
• /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/ (US)
• /ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin repatriare, from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repair (“to return”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To restore (a person) to their own country.
   • Early in 1948, a rumor spread through camp that the Japanese prisoners of war were finally going to be allowed to go home, that a ship would be sent to repatriate us in the spring. 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 561:
   • A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin. 2016 [2012], Homare Endo, “The Red Glass Bead”, in Michael Brase, transl., Chazu: Chugoku kenkoku no zanka [Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity] (Biography & Memoir), Berkeley, Cali.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:
2. (transitive) To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.
   • Greece repatriated an Athenian frieze from France, arranging for it to be sent back to Athens.
   • France repatriated an Athenian frieze back to Greece.
3. (transitive) To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

Forms

Deriveds

repatriatable · patriation · repatriation · patriate · repatriator · unrepatriated · repatriatee

Relateds

expatriate

Translations (15)

el επαναπατρίζω (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · fi kotiuttaa (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · nl repatriëren (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · es repatriar (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · pl repatriować (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · uk репатріюва́ти (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · ru репатрии́ровать (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · ca repatriar (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · sv skicka tillbaka (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · cmn 遣返 (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · fi palauttaa kotimaahan (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · sv repatriera (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · bg репатрирам (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · fr rapatrier (to restore somebody to his or her own country) · cs repatriovat (to restore somebody to his or her own country)