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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary de·port ETYMOLOGY Middle French deporter, from Latin deportare to carry away, from de- + portare to carry — more at fare DATE 1598 1. to behave or comport (oneself) especially in accord with a code 2. [Latin deportare] a. to carry away b. to send out of the country by legal deportation Synonyms: see banish , behave English Etymology deport late 15c., "behavior, bearing," from M.Fr . deporter "behave," from de- "thoroughly, formally" + porter "to carry, bear oneself;" original sense preserved in deportment. Meaning "banish" is first recorded 1640s, from Fr. déporter, from L. deportare "carry off, transport, banish;" associated by folk etymology with portus "harbor." Deportee first attested 1895.http://M.Fr Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 deport de·port / di5pC:t; NAmE di5pC:rt / verb[VN] to force sb to leave a country, usually because they have broken the law or because they have no legal right to be there 把(违法者或无合法居留权的人)驱逐出境；递解出境 • de·port·ation / 7di:pC:5teiFn; NAmE -pC:r5t- / noun [C, U] : Several of the asylum seekers now face deportation. 寻求避难的人中有几个将遭递解出境。 a deportation order 驱逐出境令 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English deport verb ADV. forcibly PREP. (back) to Many refugees were forcibly deported back to the countries they had come from. | from He was deported from Britain last week. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Edition v. Function: verb 1 Synonyms: BEHAVE 1, acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, demean, go on, quit 2 Synonyms: BANISH , displace, exile, expatriate, expel, expulse, ||lag, oust, relegate, transportWebster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged de·port I. \də̇ˈpō(ə)r]t, dēˈ-, -ȯ(ə)r], -ōə], -ȯ(ə)], usu ]d.+V\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle French deporter to behave, support, spare, from Latin deportare to carry away, exile, from de- + portare to carry — more at port (to carry)1. : carry , demean , conduct < teaching the child how to deport himself in public > 2. [Latin deportare] a. : to carry away or off : transport < 200 miners … were forcibly deported from their homes — Zechariah Chafee > b. : to send out of the country : sentence to legal deportation < deporting criminals > < in Moscow whither he had been deported — Louis Bromfield > Synonyms: see banish , behave II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle French, from deporter obsolete : bearing , deportment |
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