Noun: deportation ,dee,por'tey-shun
- The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
"The deportation of illegal immigrants was a controversial policy"
- The act of expelling a person from their native land
"his deportation to a penal colony";
- exile, expatriation
Derived forms: deportations
Type of: banishment, ejection, exclusion, expulsion, proscription, riddance
Encyclopedia: Deportation