repatriate

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Yes we repatriate money from overseas according to plan and actually since the IRS has relaxed the rules somewhat we benefit from that as well so we can keep the money that we didn't plan to repatriate, keep it somewhat longer in the US before its supposed to be a deemed [dividend] and then [inaudible] and tap from another bucket.

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  1. transitive verb To restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin: repatriate war refugees.
  2. noun One who has been repatriated.

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  • We've offered to repatriate, but she says she's not interested. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • Oxford City Council is set, it would appear, to cut its funding for the City Centre Management Company, OX1 and "repatriate" many of its functions to the bureaucracy of the City Council. —  Jock's Place
  • Protestors are expecting to march on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Saturday to demand that Canada offer to repatriate Khadr and join other countries in helping empty the prison. —  AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
  • There do not seem to be any penalties if Britain should decide to amend the Human Rights Act 1998 and repatriate the legal process of appeal on human rights issues. —  Top stories from Times Online
  • Under its Macau license, Sands can repatriate just 25 per cent of the asset sale proceeds to the United States.
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  1. Late Latin repatriāre, repatriāt-, to return to one's country : Latin re-, re- + Latin patria, native country; see expatriate.

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  1. from Late Latin repatriatus, past participle of repatriare (later Italian ripatriare =Spanish Portuguese repatriar =F. repatrier, rapatrier), return to one's country again, return home, from Latin re-, back, + patria, native land: see patria. Cf. repair.
 

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