OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 21946

repatriate

/ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
repatriar
To restore (a person) to their own country.
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 repat…
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.