repatriate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they repatriate | |
| he / she / it repatriates | |
| past simple repatriated | |
| past participle repatriated | |
| -ing form repatriating |
- repatriate somebody (formal)
to send or bring somebody back to their own country 遣送回國；遣返 The refugees were forcibly repatriated. 難民被強制遣送回國。 The insurance will cover the costs of repatriating you and your family in the case of an accident. 保險將包括在發生事故時遣返你和你的家人的費用。 Tourists who are injured or fall sick are repatriated. 受傷或染病的旅遊者會遣送回國。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
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business 商業 to send money or profits back to your own country 寄（錢）回國；將（利潤）調回本國 An agreement between the countries enables companies to repatriate their profits freely. 兩國之間的協議使公司能夠自由地將利潤匯回國内。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
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Word Originearly 17th cent. (earlier (late 16th cent.) as repatriation): from late Latin repatriat- ‘returned to one's country’, from the verb repatriare, from re- ‘back’ + Latin patria ‘native land’.