repatriation

English

Etymology

Either a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to their homeland”) or from Italian repatriazione and remodelled after words in -ation. By surface analysis, repatriate +‎ -ion.

Noun

repatriation (countable and uncountable, plural repatriations)

1. The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
2. The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
3. The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

Derived terms

• patriation

Related terms

• repatriate

Translations

the process of returning of a person to their country of origin

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: рэпатрыя́цыя f (repatryjácyja)
• Bulgarian: репатрация f (repatracija)
• Catalan: repatriació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遣返 (zh) (qiǎnfǎn), 歸國 / 归国 (zh) (guīguó),

• Czech: repatriace f
• Danish: hjemsendelse c, repatriering (da) c
• Dutch: repatriëring (nl) f
• Finnish: kotiutus (fi), palautus kotimaahan
• French: rapatriement (fr) m
• German: Repatriierung (de) f
• Greek: επαναπατρισμός (el) m (epanapatrismós)
• Hungarian: hazatelepítés (hu), hazatelepülés
• Indonesian: repatriasi (id)
• Japanese: 帰還 (ja) (きかん, kikan), 送還 (ja) (そうかん, sōkan)
• Korean: 송환(送還) (songhwan)
• Malay: repatriasi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjemsendelse m

  Nynorsk: heimsending f

• Polish: repatriacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: repatriação (pt) f
• Romanian: repatriere (ro) f
• Russian: репатриа́ция (ru) f (repatriácija)
• Spanish: repatriación (es) f
• Ukrainian: репатріа́ція f (repatriácija)