repatriating

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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