deport
part of speech
verb (deport, deports, deported, deporting); noun (deportation)
meaning for a pupil
1) To force someone to leave a country, usually because they are not allowed to live there or have broken the law. tree →
2) (old-fashioned) To behave in a certain way (deport yourself). tree →
sense in the lessons
In news and citizenship lessons, people may be deported if they do not have permission to stay. In history, people were deported to prison camps, such as in the Holocaust or when Stalin deported whole peoples like the Crimean Tatars. It is a serious word.
examples
- He was deported back to his home country. tree →
- The government deported people without visas. tree →
- In the war, families were deported to camps. tree →
- The Crimean Tatars were deported in 1944. tree →
- She feared her family would be deported. tree →
- Courts decide who can be deported. tree →
- "Can you tell me how the Will-o'-the-Wisps deport themselves, and how they behave? and in what shapes they have aforetime appeared and led people into crooked paths?" tree →
note
Countable noun: deportation. Opposite in a way: admit or allow in. People argue about deportation; reports state each side's view.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «deport» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.