repatriate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they repatriate | |
| he / she / it repatriates | |
| past simple repatriated | |
| past participle repatriated | |
| -ing form repatriating |
- repatriate somebody (formal)
to send or bring somebody back to their own country 遣送回国；遣返 The refugees were forcibly repatriated. 难民被强制遣送回国。 The insurance will cover the costs of repatriating you and your family in the case of an accident. 保险将包括在发生事故时遣返你和你的家人的费用。 Tourists who are injured or fall sick are repatriated. 受伤或染病的旅游者会遣送回国。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
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business 商业 to send money or profits back to your own country 寄（钱）回国；将（利润）调回本国 An agreement between the countries enables companies to repatriate their profits freely. 两国之间的协议使公司能够自由地将利润汇回国内。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
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Word Originearly 17th cent. (earlier (late 16th cent.) as repatriation): from late Latin repatriat- ‘returned to one's country’, from the verb repatriare, from re- ‘back’ + Latin patria ‘native land’.