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repatriated

repatriated is the simple past and past participle of repatriate.

Meaning of repatriate

Verb

repatriate (third-person singular simple present repatriates, present participle repatriating, simple past and past participle repatriated)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (transitive) 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.
  3. (transitive) To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

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Questions about repatriated

What is repatriated the simple past and past participle of?
Repatriated is the simple past and past participle of repatriate.

Words near repatriated in the dictionary

  1. repathologizes
  2. repathologizing
  3. repatriable
  4. repatriatable
  5. repatriate
  6. repatriated
  7. repatriatee
  8. repatriatees
  9. repatriates
  10. repatriating
  11. repatriation

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