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Deport vs Deportable - What's the difference?

deport | deportable |

As a verb deport

is to comport (oneself); to behave.

As an adjective deportable is

able to be deported.

As a noun deportable is

someone who is.

deport

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To comport (oneself); to behave.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.
  • To evict, especially from a country.
  • * Walsh
    • He told us he had been deported to Spain.

    Anagrams

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    deportable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be deported.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 23, author=Nina Bernstein, title=One Immigrant Family’s Hopes Lead to a Jail Cell Suicide, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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 . }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 3, author=Nina Bernstein, title=Raids Were a Shambles, Nassau Complains to U.S., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who is .
  • * 1939 , Canadian Public Health Journal , volume 30, page 524:
    • The death rate of 21 in deportables from the British Isles is lower than our provincial rate of 28; the rate of those from Europe is to our rate as 47 is to 28; {{...]}