Definition of Deportee

1. Noun. A person who is expelled from home or country by authority.

Exact synonyms: Exile
Generic synonyms: Alien, Foreigner, Noncitizen, Outlander
Derivative terms: Deport, Deport, Exile, Exilic

Definition of Deportee

1. Noun. A deported person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deportee

1. one who is deported [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deportee

depopulacy
depopulate
depopulated
depopulates
depopulating
depopulation
depopulations
depopulative
depopulator
depopulators
deport
deportable
deportation
deportations
deported
deportee (current term)
deportees
deporter
deporters
deporting
deportment
deportments
deports
deporture
deposable
deposal
deposals
depose
deposed
deposer

Literary usage of Deportee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Racist Violence in the United Kingdom by Carl Haacke, Human Rights Watch (1997)
"Ten years before this incident, in 1983, Metropolitan Police lawyers instructed, "it would be very difficult to justify gagging a deportee when not in ..."

2. Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked Into Debt Bondage in Japan by Kinsey Dinan (2000)
"345 According to Article 52, a deportee shall be deported without delay, ... There is no elaboration of the valid or invalid reasons why "a deportee cannot ..."

3. The Bedoons of Kuwait: "citizens Without Citizenship" by Aziz Abu-Hamad, Human Rights Watch/Middle East (1995)
"Article 22 gives the would-be deportee, upon posting an acceptable bond, the right to a period of time to take care of his unfinished affairs. ..."

4. A Victory Turned Sour: Human Rights in Kuwait Since Liberation by Middle East Watch (Organization), Middle East Watch (Organization (1991)
"The Minister of Interior can also order that all costs of deportation be borne by the deportee (Art. 21). Article 22 gives the would-be deportee, ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"... whilst his less fortunate antagonist, fo^K, r thirty years the despotic ruler of Madagascar, has been deportee -^ to Algeria, leaving Queen Ranavalona ..."

6. Recollections by John Morley (1917)
"The point taken is the failure to tell the deportee what he is arrested for; to detain him without letting him know exactly why; to give him no chance of ..."

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