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deportee
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Deportee may refer to: a deported person through deportation Deportees (band) , a Swedish musical band Deportee (film) , 1976 dramatic short film by Sharron Miller Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie The Deportees ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Baker insisted that the delegation include at least one deportee and one person with East Jerusalem links. ▪ This revolt soon spread to the Azores and Cape Verde, where there were more deportees from Lisbon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895; see deport (v.2) + -ee .
Usage examples of deportee.
A good many of the deportees were executed within the next few days, seemingly by random selection, no pattern being evident in the choosing of those who were put to death.
The guards ran up and down the platform, clubbing the deportees into a sort of column, prior to marching us into the town.
Just two more deportees, shipped from Legend through Saudarabia to Kabul, Afghanistan.
We went into the building, up the back stairs like immigration deportees, and finally emerged into a familiar corridor.
They'd been thrown back more than three thousand years, but every one of the temporal deportees still moved forward an inexorable minute per minute in her own losing fight with Father Time.
Sutchukil, the Thai aristocrat and political deportee, a man with a constant grin and the coldest eyes Niles had ever seen.
Wherever they went they carried with them terror and destruction, a living death and death itself, the slow death of the aged in deportee camps and the young in the slave labour camps, the quick death of the summary executions and the ghastly, insane screaming deaths of those who succumbed to the most abominable tortures ever conceived of the evil that lay buried deep in the hearts of the satanic perverts who find their way into the political police of dictatorships the world over.