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Deport vs Smuggle - What's the difference?

deport | smuggle |

In lang=en terms the difference between deport and smuggle

is that deport is to evict, especially from a country while smuggle is to bring in surreptitiously.

As verbs the difference between deport and smuggle

is that deport is to comport (oneself); to behave while smuggle is (intransitive) to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties.

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.

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    smuggle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (dialectal)

    Verb

    (wikipedia smuggle) (smuggl)
  • (intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
  • To bring in surreptitiously
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
  • (slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.
  • Derived terms

    * smuggling * smuggler