repatriate
/ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/US/ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/
repatriate noun: a person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.
Noun
repatriate (plural repatriates)
- A person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.
Verb
repatriate (third-person singular simple present repatriates, present participle repatriating, simple past and past participle repatriated)
- To restore (a person) to their own country.
- Early in 1948, a rumor spread through camp that the Japanese prisoners of war were finally going to be allowed to go home, that a ship would be sent to repatriate us in the spring.1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 561
- A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.2016 [2012], Homare Endo, “The Red Glass Bead”, in Michael Brase, transl., Chazu: Chugoku kenkoku no zanka [Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity]...
- To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.
- Greece repatriated an Athenian frieze from France, arranging for it to be sent back to Athens.
- France repatriated an Athenian frieze back to Greece.
- To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
repatriate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
repatriate in Tamil
- தாயக மீட்சி, தாயகம் திருப்பி அனுப்பு, திருப்பப்பட்டவர், தன்னாடு திரும்பு
repatriate in Urdu
- ملک واپس بھیجنا
repatriate in Malayalam
- സ്വദേശത്തേക്കു തിരിച്ചയയ്ക്കുക, സ്വരാജ്യത്തേക്കു മടക്കിക്കൊണ്ടുവരിക
repatriate in Kannada
- ತಾಯ್ನಾಡಿಗೆ ಕಳಿಸು, ತಾಯ್ನಾಡಿಗೆ ಮರಳು, ಪುನರಾಗತ, ತಾಯ್ನಾಡಿಗೆ ಹಿಂದಿರುಗಿಸಿದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ
Forms of repatriate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | repatriates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | repatriates |
| present participle | repatriating |
| past participle | repatriated |
| past | repatriated |
Origin of repatriate
Borrowed from Latin repatriare, from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repair (“to return”).
Words formed from repatriate
Questions about repatriate
- What does repatriate mean?
- Repatriate means a person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.
- What is repatriate in Tamil?
- Repatriate in Tamil is தாயக மீட்சி, தாயகம் திருப்பி அனுப்பு, திருப்பப்பட்டவர். See Repatriate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is repatriate?
- Repatriate can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce repatriate?
- Repatriate is pronounced /ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of repatriate?
- The plural of repatriate is repatriates.
Words near repatriate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: repatriate (page history and authors); repatriate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repatriate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repatriate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repatriate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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