Synonyms for deportation
ˌdi pɔrˈteɪ ʃən, -poʊr-de·por·ta·tion

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1. deportation

   Synonyms:
   arrival, importation, placement, reconsignment

   Antonyms:
   exportation, emigration, displacement

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1. exile, deportation, expatriation, transportationnoun

   the act of expelling a person from their native land

   "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"

   Synonyms:
   fare, expat, emigration, transport, expatriate, shipping, transportation, exile, transportation system, transferral, transfer, out-migration, deportee, conveyance, transit, expatriation

2. deportationnoun

   the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

   Synonyms:
   expatriation, transportation, exile

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1. • Ejection

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1. List of paraphrases for "deportation":

   expulsion, eviction, removal, deported, deporting, deport, refoulement, repatriation, eject, expelling, 'expulsion, banishment, dimensions

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1. Sri Lanka:

   Deportation mean(s) they (won't) let us go alone, they hand (us) over to an immigration department in Sri Lanka, we don't know after that...maybe we disappear.

2. Aydan Ozoguz:

   The talk of deterrence methods and deportation centers in which only minimal standards should be given, that's a no-go.

3. Paul Fernando Schreiner:

   Deportation is for illegal immigrants, i didnt request to come to the U.S., and I didnt cross a border.

4. Leidy Perez-Davis:

   United States's so easy for people's lives to be upended and moved from one side of the pendulum to the other based on a decision by the attorney general, united States still doesn't have protection from deportation and protection from being sent back to harm's way, potentially even death because of this long, drawn-out process.

5. Joaquin Castro:

   These are people who feed us, clean our homes and hospitals and offices… and they do all this while living in fear of deportation, exploitation and now of this pandemic.