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de⋅port
[di-pawrt, -pohrt] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to expel (an alien) from a country; banish. |
| 2. | to send or carry off; transport, esp. forcibly: The country deported its criminals. |
| 3. | to bear, conduct, or behave (oneself) in a particular manner. |
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| de·port (dĭ-pôrt', -pōrt') tr.v. de·port·ed, de·port·ing, de·ports
[French déporter, to banish, from Latin dēportāre, to carry away : dē-, de- + portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, Middle English, from Old French deporter, to behave, from Latin dēportāre.] |
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Deport
De*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deported; p. pr. & vb. n. Deporting.] [F. d['e]porter to transport for life, OF., to divert, amuse, from L. deportare to carry away; de- + portare to carry. See Port demeanor.]1. To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. He told us he had been deported to Spain. --Walsh. 2. To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince. --Pope.Deport
De*port"\, n. Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment. [Obs.] "Goddesslike deport." --Milton.
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Language Translation for : deport
Spanish:
deportar, expulsar,
German:
abschieben,
Japanese:
国外追放にする
deport
1474, "behavior, bearing," from M.Fr. deporter "behave," from de- "thoroughly, formally" + porter "to carry, bear oneself;" original sense preserved in deportment (1601). Meaning "banish" is first recorded 1641, from Fr. déporter, from L. deportare "carry off, transport, banish;" associated by folk etymology with portus "harbor." Deportee first attested 1895.
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Main Entry: de·port
Pronunciation: di-'pOrt
Function: transitive verb
: to send (an alien) out of a country by order of deportation —compare EXCLUDE —de·port·able adjective
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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