deport

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɔɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɔːt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpoɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpoət/

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Verb

deport (third-person singular simple present deports, present participle deporting, simple past and past participle deported)

These illegal immigrants were being deported to Mexico by American authorities

1. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
   • December 30, 1710, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell:

     Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.

2. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
   • 2019, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban:

     Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico.

   • 02/12/2021, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFP:

     Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.

Derived terms

• deportable
• deportee
• deporter
• self-deport
• undeported

Translations

to evict, especially from a country

• Albanian: dëboj (sq)
• Arabic: طَرَدَ (ar) (ṭarada)
• Armenian: արտաքսել (hy) (artakʻsel), վտարել (hy) (vtarel)
• Basque: deportatu
• Belarusian: высыла́ць impf (vysylácʹ), вы́слаць pf (výslacʹ), дэпартава́ць impf or pf (departavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: изсе́лвам (bg) impf (izsélvam), изсе́ля pf (izsélja), изго́нвам (bg) impf (izgónvam), изго́ня pf (izgónja), депорти́рам impf or pf (deportíram)
• Catalan: deportar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅逐出境／驱逐出境 (zh) (qūzhú chūjìng), 驅逐／驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú)

• Czech: deportovat (cs) impf or pf, vyhostit (cs) pf
• Danish: udvise, deportere
• Dutch: uitzetten (nl), deporteren (nl)
• Estonian: deporteerima
• Finnish: karkottaa (fi), karkottaa maasta
• French: déporter (fr)
• Galician: deportar
• Georgian: დეპორტირება (deṗorṭireba)
• German: (remove foreign national) abschieben (de), ausweisen (de); (banish, send to a camp etc.) deportieren (de)
• Greek: εξορίζω (el) (exorízo)
• Hebrew: גירש / גֵּרֵשׁ (gerésh)
• Hindi: पेश आना (peś ānā)
• Hungarian: deportál (hu), kitelepít (hu)
• Interlingua: deportar
• Italian: deportare (it)
• Japanese: 追放する (ja) (ついほうする, tsuihō suru)
• Khmer: កំចាត់ (km) (kɑmcat), និរទេស (niteih)
• Korean: 추방하다 (ko) (chubanghada)
• Lao: ເນລະເທດ (nē la thēt)
• Latin: dēportō
• Latvian: deportēt, izsūtīt
• Lithuanian: deportuoti, ištremti, tremti
• Macedonian: депорти́ра impf or pf (deportíra), протерува impf (proteruva), протера pf (protera)
• Maori: terepu, tūwhiti
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: deportere, utvise

• Polish: deportować (pl) impf or pf, wyganiać (pl) impf, wygnać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: deportar (pt)
• Romanian: a deporta (ro)
• Russian: депорти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (deportírovatʹ), высыла́ть (ru) impf (vysylátʹ), вы́слать (ru) pf (výslatʹ), выдворя́ть (ru) impf (vydvorjátʹ), вы́дворить (ru) pf (výdvoritʹ), изгоня́ть (ru) impf (izgonjátʹ), изгна́ть (ru) pf (izgnátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: депорти́рати impf or pf

  Roman: deportírati (sh) impf or pf

• Slovak: deportovať impf or pf, vyhostiť pf, vysídliť pl
• Slovene: deportirati impf or pf
• Spanish: deportar (es)
• Swedish: deportera (sv), utvisa (sv) (from a country), förvisa (sv)
• Thai: เนรเทศ (th) (nee-rá-têet)
• Turkish: sınırdışı etmek
• Ukrainian: висила́ти impf (vysyláty), ви́слати pf (výslaty), депортува́ти impf or pf (deportuváty)
• Vietnamese: trục xuất (vi)

Anagrams

• de trop, ported, red top, red-top, redtop, troped

Catalan

Noun

deport m (plural deports)

1. sport

   Synonym: esport

Old French

Alternative forms

• desport

Noun

deport oblique singular, m (oblique plural deporz or deportz, nominative singular deporz or deportz, nominative plural deport)

1. enjoyment; fun
   • c. 1200, Unknown author, Aucassin et Nicolette:

     Qui vauroit bons vers oïr
     del deport du viel antif

     Who would like to hear a few good lines
     Of amusement from the old storyteller

Descendants

• → Catalan: deport
• → Middle English: disport, disporte
  • ⇒ Middle English: sport, spoort, sporte
    • English: sport (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: sport
• → Portuguese: desporto, desporte
• → Spanish: deporto

Old Occitan

Noun

deport m (oblique plural deports, nominative singular deports, nominative plural deport)

1. enjoyment; fun
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Ges de chantar no.m pren talans

     Que d'aqui mou deportz e chans

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)