deportable

deportable adjective: able to be deported.

Adjective

deportable (comparative more deportable, superlative most deportable)

Able to be deported.
- His criminal convictions — for an attempted robbery in 2003, and for breaking into two parked cars to steal stereos in 2005 — were more than enough to make him deportable.2007 February 23, Nina Bernstein, “One Immigrant Family’s Hopes Lead to a Jail Cell Suicide”, in The New York Times
- They repeatedly passed up the invitation to check a list of 96 deportable gang associates active in Nassau County against a local police database that is updated daily, he said.2007 October 3, Nina Bernstein, “Raids Were a Shambles, Nassau Complains to U.S.”, in The New York Times

deportable (plural deportables)

(offensive, rare, sometimes) Someone who is deportable.
- 4. Deportables as a group show a death rate of 42. Our immigrants who have been in Canada over five years, show a rate of 36. The deportables have a higher rate, chiefly, no doubt, because they are on the average five years or more younger.
  The death rate of 21 in deportables from the British Isles...1939, Canadian Public Health Journal, volume 30, page 524
- Comparing the incidence of cases with bacillary sputum, 69.2 per cent of the deportables showed bacilli on admission, in contrast with 45 per cent among provincial cases. Outcome was poor among the deportables; 41.7 per cent died.1941, The ... Year Book of Public Health, Volume 2, page 193

From deport + -able.

What does deportable mean?: Deportable means able to be deported.
What part of speech is deportable?: Deportable can be an adjective or a noun.

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