repatriate

plural repatriates

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

present singular third person repatriates · participle present repatriating · participle past repatriated · past repatriated

1. transitiveTo restore (a person) to their own country.

   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.

   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

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   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.

   Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity

   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] (Biography & Memoir), Berkeley, Cali.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66

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

   France repatriated an Athenian frieze back to Greece.

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

3. transitiveTo convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.