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deport - 6 dictionary results

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.

Origin:
1475–85; < MF déporter < L dēportāre to carry away, banish oneself, equiv. to dē- de- + portāre to carry; see port 5


de⋅port⋅a⋅ble, adjective
de⋅por⋅tee, noun
de⋅port⋅er, noun
de·port   (dĭ-pôrt', -pōrt')   
tr.v.   de·port·ed, de·port·ing, de·ports
  1. To expel from a country. See Synonyms at banish.
  2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport.

[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.]

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.
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.

Main Entry: de·port
Pronunciation: di-'pOrt
Function: transitive verb
: to send (an alien) out of a country by order of deportation —compare EXCLUDEde·port·able adjective
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