transitive verb (past and past participlere·pa·tri·at·ed, present participlere·pa·tri·at·ing, 3rd person present singularre·pa·tri·ates)
Definition:
1. send somebody back: to send somebody back to his or her country of birth, the country of which he or she is a citizen, or the country from which he or she arrived
2. send back money: to send money that has been earned or invested abroad back to its owner's country of origin
3. send back artefact: to send a cultural artefact or works of art back to country of origin
noun (pluralre·pa·tri·ates)
Definition:
somebody repatriated: somebody who has been repatriated
[Early 17th century. < late Latin repatriat-, past participle of repatriare "go back home" < Latin patria "homeland"]
