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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)
- (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
to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Galician
Verb
extradite
- inflection of extraditar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Verb
extradite
- inflection of extraditar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
extradite
- inflection of extraditar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative