Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun deportation

2 senses of deportation

Sense 1
exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation -- (the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life")
       => banishment, proscription -- (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Sense 2
deportation -- (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)
       => ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance -- (the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school")

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