noun
- The act of expelling a person from their native land.
- usage: "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
- synonyms: exile, deportation, transportation
- Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another. ).
- synonyms: emigration, out-migration
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