repatriate

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: re=pat=ri=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

repatriate, v. t. [L. repatriare. See 1st Repair.].

 To restore to one's own country.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

repatriate, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. restore (a person) to his or her native land.
2 intr. return to one's own native land.
--n. a person who has been repatriated.

Derivative

repatriation n.

Etymology

LL repatriare (as RE-, L patria native land)