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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of banishing, or the state of being banished; banishment.
  • noun In law, the voluntary renunciation of one's nationality and allegiance, by becoming a citizen of another country.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun voluntary migration from one's native land to another
  • noun forced expulsion of from one's native land to another

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of expelling a person from their native land
  • noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

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