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extradite
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extradite \Ex"tra*dite\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extradited ; p. pr. & vb. n. Extraditing .] To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there" [syn: deliver , deport ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1864, back-formation from extradition . Related: Extradited ; extraditing ; extraditable .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Spanish authorities are seeking to have the couple extradited to answer further charges. ▪ The drug baron was extradited to the United States from Colombia. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the same time the government has offered ...
Usage examples of extradite.
A few weeks after he was extradited back to Jersey, I went to see Gordon Spangler in jail.
Pallal can request he be extradited back to Said Ababa as a ward of the state.
Ochoas of the Medellin Cartel turned themselves in after being assured that they would not suffer any loss of fortune, harm of any kind, nor would they be extradited to the United States.
We may in fact need to fight requests to extradite you to face a trial in a Salvadoran court.
If people in Hatrack, who mostly liked Alvin, came to believe that by convicting him of stealing Makepeace’s plow they might keep him from being extradited to a state where he would surely be hanged, they might convict him for his own good.
If people in Hatrack, who mostly liked Alvin, came to believe that by convicting him of stealing Makepeace's plow they might keep him from being extradited to a state where he would surely be hanged, they might convict him for his own good.
No people had ever been successful in extraditing one of their own from this Catechist stronghold by diplomatic means and none were foolish enough to attempt such a thing by force.
You may, if you wish, apply for him to be extradited from New Alexandria in order to face charges here, once he has been tried there.
On the other hand, he refused to extradite Oliver North, John Hull, Admiral Poindexter, General Secord, Lewis Tambs, and other Americans to Costa Rica, where they are under indictment by that government for operating a drug smuggling operation there.
You can, possibly, prevent this catastrophe by reimbursing us for the damage done, and extraditing these terrorists of yours to the Klingons for trial and punishment.
Immigration authorities, the Egyptian Jama a' Islamiya (the group implicated in the World Trade Center bombing) issued a statement saying that if the Sheik was prosecuted or extradited to Egypt, they would begin a world-wide terror campaign against the United States.
It's hard to extradite a man from Mexico, even on a murder charge.
He would be promptly put on a re-turn flight and extradited back to San Jose.
Embassy could intervene and extradite guilty citizens back to the United States, where they received nothing more than a slap on the wrist.