0 past simple and past participle of repatriate
1 to send or bring someone, or sometimes money or other property, back to the country that he, she, or it came from:
The government repatriated him because he had no visa.
Over 5 million had been repatriated by the beginning of 1946.
A further proportion would have been repatriated directly.
The problem was that many did not wish to be repatriated.
As a consequence, some 22,000 were successfully repatriated.
The second method of estimation is backward looking, and relies on the number of repatriated refugees from 1997-98 sources.
All countries that have taken the trouble to construct modern treatment plants seem to have accepted that sludge should be repatriated for final disposal.
Very few wanted to return, and some feared that they might be repatriated because of their ' illegal ' status.
All these numbers add up to 321,300 refugees who were either living in neighbouring countries or repatriated out of the 555,000 missing in late 1996.
