repatriation
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- n the act of returning to the country of origin
- The Communists gave in on voluntary repatriation, the single issue that for 17 months had stood in the way of an armistice.
- Vague about the shape of the commission, he was specific on its main problem: repatriation of prisoners of warsaid to be the crucial problem holding up agreement at Panmunjom.
- Already 1,900 had taken a free ride home since the Filipino Repatriation Act was passed in the summer of 1935.