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Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

deport (third-person singular simple present deports, present participle deporting, simple past and past participle deported)

These illegal immigrants were being deported (sense 2) to Mexico by American authorities
  1. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
  2. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.

    Ask her to deport all illegals living in this town without a green card or the appropriate documents that prove their naturalized citizenship.

    • 2019, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban:

      Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico.

    • 02/12/2021, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFP:

      Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.

to evict, especially from a country

deport m (plural deports)

  1. sport
    Synonym: esport

deport oblique singular, m (oblique plural deporz or deportz, nominative singular deporz or deportz, nominative plural deport)

  1. enjoyment; fun

    • c. 1200, Unknown author, Aucassin et Nicolette:

      Qui vauroit bons vers oïr
      del deport du viel antif

      Who would like to hear a few good lines
      Of amusement from the old storyteller

deport m (oblique plural deports, nominative singular deports, nominative plural deport)

  1. enjoyment; fun