repatriation

English

Etymology

From Late Latin repatrio (“to restore someone to their homeland”).

Noun

repatriation (countable and uncountable, plural repatriations)

1. The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
2. The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
3. The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

Derived terms

• patriation

Related terms

• repatriate

Translations

the process of returning of a person to their country of origin

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: репатрация f (repatracija)
• Catalan: repatriació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遣送回國／遣送回国 (qiǎnsònghuíguó), 歸國／归国 (zh) (guīguó), 遣返 (zh) (qiǎnfǎn)

• Czech: repatriace f
• Danish: hjemsendelse c, repatriering (da) c
• Dutch: repatriëring (nl) f
• Finnish: kotiutus (fi), palautus kotimaahan
• French: rapatriement (fr) m
• German: Repatriierung (de) f
• Indonesian: repatriasi (id)
• Japanese: 帰還 (ja) (きかん, kikan), 送還 (ja) (そうかん, sōkan)
• Korean: 송환(送還) (songhwan)
• Malay: repatriasi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjemsendelse m

  Nynorsk: heimsending f

• Polish: repatriacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: repatriação (pt) f
• Romanian: repatriere (ro) f
• Russian: репатриа́ция (ru) f (repatriácija)
• Spanish: repatriación f
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can