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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To give up or deliver (a fugitive, for example) to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority.
  2. v. To obtain the extradition of. See Synonyms at banish.
  3. v. To perform the act of extradition or engage in the process of extradition: "Rio or Uruguay or wherever it is that they do not extradite for murder” ( Scott Turow).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To deliver or give up, as to another nation: as, to extradite a criminal.
  2. To project in perception by a psychological process (a sensation) to a distance from the body. Thus, when we strike the ground with a cane, we seem to feel the blow at the further end of the cane—that is, extradite the sensation to that point.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See extradition.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. hand over to the authorities of another country

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from extradition. (Source: SOED 1983.) (Wiktionary)
  2. Back-formation from extradition. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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