Associations to the word «Deportation»

Wiktionary

DEPORTATION, noun. The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

Dictionary definition

DEPORTATION, noun. The act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life".
DEPORTATION, noun. The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats