deportation

Noun
  1. The act of expelling a person from their native land (synset 100208610)
    "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
    is a type of: banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
    specific instances: babylonian captivity - the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC
    same as: exile, expatriation, transportation
  2. The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien (synset 100208155)
    is a type of: ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance - the act of forcing out someone or something

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