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Repatriate: Definition, Usage & Key Examples (2 meaning)
Meaning 1：send someone home (repatriate)
repatriate
/rɪˈpeɪ.tri.eɪt/
v.
To officially send a person back to their home country, often due to war ending, illness, or by government order.
send someone home
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/send ˈsʌm.wʌn hoʊm/
v.
To officially arrange for a person to return to their country of origin or citizenship, often after a period of displacement or exile.
📘 Details & Usage
📖 Root Explanation
From Latin 're-' (back) + 'patria' (fatherland).
💡 Mnemonic
Think: REturn to your PATRIA (fatherland).
📖 Example
After the peace agreement, the aid organization helped to repatriate thousands of refugees to their villages.
Following the peace treaty, the humanitarian agency facilitated the repatriation of thousands of displaced persons back to their hometowns.
🔗 Collocations
repatriate refugees – to send displaced people back to their home country
repatriate remains – to return a deceased person's body to their native land
repatriate citizens – to bring a country's own people back from abroad
🔄 Synonyms
return (v.) – to send or bring back to a former place or condition.
repatriation (n.) – the process of repatriating someone or something.
send back (v. phrase) – to cause someone or something to go back to a place.
🚫 Antonyms
expatriate (v.) – to send someone into exile or to cause someone to live outside their native country.
deport (v.) – to expel a foreigner from a country, often for legal reasons or lack of legal status.
exile (v.) – to force someone to live away from their own country, typically for political or punitive reasons.
🌱 Derivatives
repatriation (n.) – the act of returning someone or something to their own country.
repatriated (adj.) – having been returned to one's own country.
📖 Cultural Story
Derived from Latin 'repatriare', meaning 'to return to one's country'. First used in English legal and diplomatic contexts in the early 17th century to describe the formal return of persons or assets to their country of origin or allegiance.
Meaning 2：bring profits back (repatriate)
repatriate
/rɪˈpeɪ.tri.eɪt/
v.
To bring money or profits earned in a foreign country back to your home country.
bring profits back
➕
/brɪŋ ˈprɒf.ɪts bæk/
v.
To transfer money, earnings, or other assets from a foreign country back to the home country of the individual or company.
📘 Details & Usage
📖 Example
The new tax policy encourages foreign companies to repatriate their profits and invest more locally.
The revised fiscal regulations incentivize multinational corporations to bring home their overseas earnings for increased domestic investment.
🔗 Collocations
repatriate profits – to bring earnings from foreign operations back to the home country
repatriate earnings – to return income generated abroad
repatriate capital – to move financial assets from a foreign jurisdiction back to the home country
🔄 Synonyms
bring back (v. phrase) – to return something, especially money, to its place of origin.
remit (v.) – to send money, especially as a payment, often to another country.
transfer back (v. phrase) – to move funds or assets to a previous location.
🚫 Antonyms
offshore (v.) – to move business or capital to a foreign country, often for tax or regulatory advantages.
invest abroad (v. phrase) – to commit money to financial schemes or business ventures in a foreign country.
🌱 Derivatives
repatriable (adj.) – capable of being repatriated, often referring to funds.
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