repatriate

English

Etymology

Latin repatriare, from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repair (“to return”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/, /ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/

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Noun

repatriate (plural repatriates)

1. A person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.

Translations

a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored

• Bulgarian: възвращенец m (vǎzvraštenec)
• Greek: επαναπατρισμένος (el) m (epanapatrisménos)
• Italian: rimpatriato (it) m
• Kazakh: оралман (oralman), ورالمان
• Macedonian: по́вратник m (póvratnik), повра́тничка m (povrátnička), репатри́рец m (repatrírec), репатри́рка f (repatrírka)
• Mandarin: 被遣返回国者
• Polish: repatriant (pl) m, repatriantka f
• Russian: репатриа́нт (ru) m (repatriánt), репатриа́нтка (ru) f (repatriántka)
• Slovak: repatriant m, repatriantka f

Verb

repatriate (third-person singular simple present repatriates, present participle repatriating, simple past and past participle repatriated)

1. (transitive) To restore (a person) to their own country.
   • 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 561:

     Early in 1948, a rumor spread through camp that the Japanese prisoners of war were finally going to be allowed to go home, that a ship would be sent to repatriate us in the spring.

   • 2016 [2012], Homare Endo, “The Red Glass Bead”, in Michael Brase, transl., Chazu: Chugoku kenkoku no zanka [Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity]‎^[1] (Biography & Memoir), Berkeley, Cali.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

     A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.

2. (transitive) To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.

   Greece repatriated an Athenian frieze from France, arranging for it to be sent back to Athens.

   France repatriated an Athenian frieze back to Greece.

3. (transitive) To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

Derived terms

• repatriation
• patriate
• patriation

Related terms

• expatriate

Translations

to restore somebody to his or her own country

• Bulgarian: репатрирам (bg) (repatriram)
• Catalan: repatriar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遣返 (zh) (qiǎnfǎn)

• Czech: repatriovat
• Dutch: repatriëren (nl)
• Finnish: kotiuttaa (fi), palauttaa kotimaahan
• French: rapatrier (fr)
• Greek: επαναπατρίζω (el) (epanapatrízo)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: repatriować impf
• Russian: репатрии́ровать (ru) (repatriírovatʹ)
• Spanish: repatriar (es)
• Swedish: repatriera (sv), skicka tillbaka
• Ukrainian: репатріюва́ти impf or pf (repatrijuváty)

Anagrams

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Verb

repatriate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of repatriar combined with te