[with obj.]send (someone) back to their own country 把…遣返回国 the government sought to repatriate thousands of Albanian refugees. 政府试图把几千名阿尔巴尼亚难民遣返回国。 ■send or bring (money) back to one's own country 把(资金)调回本国 foreign firms would be permitted to repatriate all profits. 外国公司会被允许把全部利润调回本国。
noun
a person who has been repatriated 被遣返回国者
派生 repatriation noun 语源
early 17th cent.: from late Latin repatriat- 'returned to one's country', from the verb repatriare, from re- 'back' + Latin patria 'native land'