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say it: ree-PAY-tree-ayt
repatriate is a verb and noun meaning "send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees". It carries 3 recorded senses.
send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees
admit back into the country
a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for repatriate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.