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self-deportations

self-deportations is the plural of self-deportation.

Meaning of self-deportation

Noun

self-deportation (plural self-deportations)

  1. A voluntary emigration by members of an unwanted or illegal population, often as a result of policies that make staying in their country of residence difficult.
    • Doak encouraged local immigration officers, law enforcement agencies, and repatriation-sympathetic newspapers to join forces to publicize deportation raids, frightening many Mexicans into self-deportation.2007, Dan Kanstroom, Deportation Nation, →ISBN, page 218

Origin of self-deportations

self + deportations

Questions about self-deportations

What is self-deportations the plural of?
Self-deportations is the plural of self-deportation.

Words near self-deportations in the dictionary

  1. self-denigrations
  2. self-denying
  3. self-denyingly
  4. self-deport
  5. self-deportation
  6. self-deportations
  7. self-deported
  8. self-deporting
  9. self-deports
  10. self-deprecate
  11. self-deprecated

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