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Emigrate vs Deport - What's the difference?

emigrate | deport |

As verbs the difference between emigrate and deport

is that emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere while deport is to comport (oneself); to behave.

emigrate

English

Verb

(emigrat)
  • To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
  • * Macaulay
    • Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
  • * J. H. Newman
    • They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

    Antonyms

    * immigrate

    Related terms

    * emigrant * emigration * * immigrant * immigrate * immigration * migrate * migration * migratory

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    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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