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Added 9 October 2026

repatriation

noun

Latin root: repatriātiō Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about repatriation at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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

Origin

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.

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