Repatriate

Word REPATRIATE
Character 10
Hyphenation re pa tri ate
Pronunciations /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Repatriate"

What do we mean by repatriate?

To restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin. transitive verb

One who has been repatriated. noun

To restore to one's own country.

To restore to one's own country. transitive verb

A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored. noun

To restore (a person) to his or her own country. verb

A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored noun

Send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees verb

Admit back into the country verb

A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Repatriate

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The word "repatriate" in example sentences

The way we do it now is that when a multinational brings the money they earned overseas back home -- when they "repatriate" it, to use the more technical term -- we tax it at whatever the difference is between our corporate-tax rate and the corporate-tax rate they've already paid. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)

In an interview on Friday morning with French radio, Industry Minister Luc Chatel tried to cast Renault's decision as evidence that the government's recent €6 billion aid plan was encouraging companies to "repatriate" production to France. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Under current law, U.S. companies can defer taxes indefinitely on the many of the profits they say they have earned overseas until they "repatriate" that money back to the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They want to 'repatriate' legal UK residents for god's sake! ❋ Jeff (2009)

On Friday Industry Minister Luc Chatel tried to cast Renault's decision as evidence that the government's recent €6 billion aid plan was encouraging companies to "repatriate" production to France. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thomson and lighting designer Martin Conboy, and is intended to symbolically "repatriate" the bodies of the war dead who, by law, had to be buried in Europe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Tories say they would "repatriate" some aid policy, but do not explain how they would do this in face of unanimous opposition from Brussels and EU partners. ❋ Richard (2005)

This will help reduce any incentive to "repatriate" several times; ❋ Unknown (1999)

The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) demanded that South Africa "repatriate" all mercenaries fighting with government troops. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Other ways in which Tory Eurosceptics would seek to "repatriate" powers from Brussels to ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a speech last month at the Chatham House think tank, Clegg made a case for the need for Britain to "repatriate" its foreign policy after a half-century of what he called the "default Atlanticism" of a succession of Labor and Conservative governments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Morgan Stanley had slightly more than $300 million of seed capital in FrontPoint and plans to "repatriate" that in the near future, CEO ❋ Unknown (2010)

President Barack Obama is looking to force companies to "repatriate" more of the cash earned overseas, and to do it more quickly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oxford City Council is set, it would appear, to cut its funding for the City Centre Management Company, OX1 and "repatriate" many of its functions to the bureaucracy of the City Council. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The paper by three Kansas professors examined the impact of a one-time tax break approved by Congress in 2004 that allowed multinational corporations to "repatriate" profits earned overseas, effectively reducing their tax rate on the money from 35 percent to 5.25 percent.

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