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The act of returning to the country of origin
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repatriation
Word definitions for repatriation in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Repatriation is the return of art or cultural heritage , usually referring to ancient or looted art , to their country of origin or former owners (or their heirs). The disputed cultural property items are physical artifacts of a group or society that were ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of returning to the country of origin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repatriation \Re*pa`tri*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. LL. repatriatio return to one's country.] Restoration to one's country.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Late Latin reparationem (nominative repatriatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of repatriare "return to one's own country," from Latin re- "back" (see re- ) + patria "native land" (see patriot ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship. 2 Process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country
Usage examples of repatriation.
For many, however, repatriation would take years not months, and hundreds of thousands were destined to die without seeing their homeland again.
Entering into the formal channels of repatriation did not guarantee a swift and safe return.
Diseases ravaged many groups of returnees, and as a consequence repatriation became delayed by the need to conduct medical examinations, immunizations, and occasional quarantines.
For servicemen in all theaters, repatriation was often delayed by local Allied authorities who chose to use their prisoners for specific postwar purposes.
The British, in charge of the repatriation of approximately three-quarters of a million Japanese from south and southeast Asia, made no bones about their intention to hold on to a large number for projects in areas where the European powers, having ousted the Japanese aggressors, were intent on reasserting their own colonial authority.
The excruciatingly prolonged nature of the repatriation process, together with Soviet unwillingness to provide accurate information about the number and identity of their prisoners, greatly exacerbated this animosity.
By 1948, it had also become obvious that the Soviets were delaying repatriation in order to subject prisoners to intensive indoctrination, so that they might contribute to communist agitation on their return.
From a logistical standpoint, the repatriation process was an impressive accomplishment.
A contemporary description of the Kamoi Repatriation Center in Uraga captures this.
Well over half dealt with the repatriation of family and acquaintances from overseas.
His response to the horrors he witnessed in the final, hopeless stages of the war in Burma was to refuse repatriation and become a priest, wandering the jungles to search out and bury the remains of soldiers who had starved to death or been annihilated in combat.
Saddam Husayn, who had agreed on October 5, 1988, to the ICRC plan for prisoner repatriation, in March 1989 proposed in a letter to UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar that the UN guarantee the return of the freed POWs to civilian life.
Corellian passport holders now have forty-eight hours to report to their local CSF precinct and opt for repatriation or face internment.
Michelangelo would start complaining about the clothes Vincent had chosen for him soon enough, and then, if they hurried, they could make it to the docks and check out the cargo before their command appearance at breakfast and the repatriation ceremony.
A second list was of Americans for whom the embassy would request repatriation or safe internment.