deportee

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See also: déportée

English

Etymology

From deport +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

Noun

deportee (plural deportees)

  1. A deported person.
    • 2024 October 19, Catherine E. Shoichet, “Trump’s mass deportation plans would be costly. Here’s why”, in CNN‎:
      That year ICE also said the average cost of transporting one deportee to their home country was $1,978.
    • 2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.

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