EXTRADITION Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

extradition

noun

Definition of extradition

as in deportation

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Recent Examples of extradition Wilmington Police Department said the suspect’s extradition and charges were pending. — Danny E Freeman, CNN Money, 16 June 2026 The suspect was jailed at Clark County Detention Center and awaiting extradition from Nevada to Utah, according to the outlet. — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026 Tjongarero-Henderson and Raebel are being held at the Ottawa County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Maryland, authorities said. — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 June 2026 Shaw, who was arrested on Tuesday by the Boise Police Department while in the city, is in the Ada County Jail awaiting extradition to Payette County, where she will be arraigned on two counts of first-degree murder. — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for extradition

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Noun

But the court also said the people facing deportation must pursue their cases individually where they are being held, under what are called habeas petitions, rather than collectively, under what is called a class action.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Nearly half of all respondents in deportation proceedings filed in California courts do not have legal representation, according to TRAC data.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of deportation

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Accra’s 1969 migrant expulsion and Uganda’s mass ban three years later both triggered capital flight and supply chain chaos.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
The poems explore themes of loss, identity, artmaking and the natural world, as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Eureka, California.

— Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 21 June 2026

Definition of expulsion

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Officials caution that not everyone reported missing is necessarily trapped beneath the rubble because communications failures, mass displacement and transportation disruptions have complicated efforts to reunite families.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
But any displacement by immigrants is limited and often dwarfed, as Card's research found, by job increases from new or expanding businesses that immigrants generate.

— Robert Hormats, Time, 4 July 2026