0 the act of making someone return for trial to another country or state where they have been accused of doing something illegal:
1 the return of someone accused of a crime to the country where the crime was committed:
The extradition proceeding has been put on hold.
Repatriation, therefore, was not the same as extradition.
The concept cannot be expressed with semantic accuracy by word pairs like 'expel-expulsion', 'exile-exile' or 'extradite-extradition'.
With some ingenuity then, deportation might achieve almost all that extradition could promise.
This was the issue of extradition.
Should they do so, there was no need to engage in the complicated and difficult process of extradition; rather the government could resort to the home secretary's powers of deportation.
