repatriation

repatriate | American Dictionary

repatriate
verb[ T ]
us/riˈpeɪ·triˌeɪt, -ˈpæ·tri-/
to send or bring someone or something back to the country that person or thing came from

repatriation

noun[ U ]us/riˌpeɪ·triˈeɪ·ʃən, -ˌpæ·tri-/
Repatriation of refugees is essential to rebuilding the country.

repatriate | Business English

repatriate
verb[ T ]
uk /riːˈpætrieɪt/ us /riːˈpeɪtrieɪt/
FINANCE
to send or bring money or profits back to your own country:
repatriate earnings/money/profits
The business generates 58% of its sales outside of the United States and will likely repatriate $800 million in foreign earnings.

repatriation

noun[ C or U ]
Imports and profit repatriation are high, relative to exports.

Examples of repatriate

repatriate
Pressures from foreign investors wanting more freedom to repatriate profits were also likely.
The ministry sent prefects to assess the number of distressed repatriates and to provide basic relief funds.
Over 5 million had been repatriated by the beginning of 1946.
A further proportion would have been repatriated directly.
One might argue, therefore, they were less likely to repatriate.
The problem was that many did not wish to be repatriated.
At the same time he offered a tax amnesty to all holders of foreign assets who were prepared to repatriate them.
Another reason that officials often cite for the refusal to repatriate cultural property is the proclaimed social duty to educate citizens and preserve world culture.
As a consequence, some 22,000 were successfully repatriated.
However, this repatriation programme, and another endeavour expected to repatriate an additional 100,000 refugees, soon ran into difficulties.
It utilises a three-fold classification of immigrants: documented immigrants (including legal labour migrants, family reunion and repatriates); refugees and asylum seekers; and undocumented migrants.
All countries that have taken the trouble to construct modern treatment plants seem to have accepted that sludge should be repatriated for final disposal.
Though it did not invest extensively during the 1930s and the 1940s, they did not repatriate wealth either.
Very few wanted to return, and some feared that they might be repatriated because of their ' illegal ' status.
In this he challenges the conventional wisdom that refugees are dislocated people who can be made whole only by repatriating them home.
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