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deportee

noun

  1. person expelled from a country
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɪˌpɔːˈti/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English deport English -ee English deportee From deport + -ee.

  1. A deported person.

    That year ICE also said the average cost of transporting one deportee to their home country was $1,978.

    But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.