repatriate
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To return someone to their own country.
After the armistice, thousands of prisoners were slowly repatriated across the border.
Law verb
To bring profits or capital held abroad back to the home country.
The group deferred tax almost indefinitely by declining to repatriate its overseas earnings.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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