deport

Etymology

Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

verb

  1. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
    Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince. December 30, 1710, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
  2. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
    Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico. 2019, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban
    Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme. 02/12/2021, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFP

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