expatriation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the act of expelling a person from their native land
noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

Borrowed from French expatriation, or from expatriate + -ion.

90 Expatriation, American and British views on, i. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams
747-751, for further details regarding Oswald’s attempted expatriation. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
No reason is assigned for this expatriation, which was probably due to the return of the prince from Geneva without permission. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

exile, deportation, transportation

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