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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/, (less commonly) /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/

名詞

repatriate (plural repatriates)

1. A person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.

動詞

repatriate (third-person singular simple present repatriates, present participle repatriating, simple past and past participle repatriated)

1. (transitive) To restore (a person) to their own country.
   • 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 561:

     Early in 1948, a rumor spread through camp that the Japanese prisoners of war were finally going to be allowed to go home, that a ship would be sent to repatriate us in the spring.

   • 2016 [2012], Homare Endo, “The Red Glass Bead”, in Michael Brase, transl., Chazu: Chugoku kenkoku no zanka [Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity]‎ (Biography & Memoir), Berkeley, Cali.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

     A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.

2. (transitive) To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.

   Greece repatriated an Athenian frieze from France, arranging for it to be sent back to Athens.

   France repatriated an Athenian frieze back to Greece.

3. (transitive) To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

派生語

関連する語

• expatriate

アナグラム

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