Deportable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Deportable is an adjective meaning Able to be deported.
Meaning
Able to be deported.
More Meanings
- (rare, sometimes offensive) Someone who is deportable.
Example Sentences
At least 50 per cent of the deportables who broke down had tuberculosis on entering Canada. Sanatorium treatment for 185 deportables cost Saskatchewan $196,- 237.25.
His criminal convictions — for an attempted robbery in 2003, and for breaking into two parked cars to steal stereos in 2005 — were more than enough to make him deportable.
They repeatedly passed up the invitation to check a list of 96 deportable gang associates active in Nassau County against a local police database that is updated daily, he said.
These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables under the catch-all provision making any alien who shall come to the United States in violation of law deportable.
Word Forms
- deportables
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include alien, aliens, exilable, evictable, expellable, detainable.
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