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Definition of: repatriate
(rē·pā′trē·āt) v.t. & v.i. ·at·ed, ·at·ing
To send back or return to his own country, as a soldier interned in a neutral territory; restore to citizenship.
—noun (rē·pā′trē·it) A person who has been repatriated. [<LL repatriatus, pp. of repatriare <L re- again + patria native land]
—re·pa′tri·a′tion noun
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