extradite

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See also: extradité

English

Etymology

Back-formation from extradition. (Source: SOED 1983.)

Pronunciation

Verb

extradite (third-person singular simple present extradites, present participle extraditing, simple past and past participle extradited)

  1. (transitive) To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.
    • 1948 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 216:
      Balfour, who had sought refuge in Argentina, was extradited, and sentenced to a long term of penal servitude at Parkhurst Prison in the Isle of Wight.

Translations

Galician

Verb

extradite

  1. inflection of extraditar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

extradite

  1. inflection of extraditar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

extradite

  1. inflection of extraditar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative