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repatriation

repatriation noun: the process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.

Noun

repatriation (countable and uncountable, plural repatriations)

  1. The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
  2. The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
  3. The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

repatriation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

repatriation in Hindi

प्रत्यावर्तन

repatriation in Tamil

தாயகத்துக்கு அனுப்புதல், தாயகத்துக்கு மீளல், தாயகத்துக்குத் திரும்பு, அனுப்பு

repatriation in Urdu

وطن واپسی

repatriation in Kannada

ವಾಪಸಾತಿ, ಪ್ರತ್ಯಾವರ್ತನ, ಪ್ರತಿಪ್ರೇಷಣ, ಸ್ವದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ವಾಪಸ್ ಬರುವುದು, ತಾಯ್ನಾಡಿಗೆ ಹಿಂದಿರುಗುವುದು
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repatriation in Gujarati
પ્રત્યાર્પણ
repatriation in Malay
repatriasi
repatriation in Indonesian
repatriasi

Forms of repatriation

pluralrepatriations

Plural of repatriation: repatriations

Origin of repatriation

Either a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to their homeland”) or from Italian repatriazione and remodelled after words in -ation. By surface analysis, repatriate + -ion.

Words formed from repatriation

Questions about repatriation

What does repatriation mean?
Repatriation means the process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
What is repatriation in Hindi?
Repatriation in Hindi is प्रत्यावर्तन. See Repatriation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is repatriation?
Repatriation is a noun.
What is the plural of repatriation?
The plural of repatriation is repatriations.

Words near repatriation in the dictionary

  1. repatriated
  2. repatriatee
  3. repatriatees
  4. repatriates
  5. repatriating
  6. repatriation
  7. repatriational
  8. repatriations
  9. repatriator
  10. repatriators
  11. repatrol

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: repatriation (page history and authors); repatriation (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); repatriation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repatriation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repatriation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repatriation (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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