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déportation

deportation

noun deh-por-tah-SYOHN Rare
People & Society Government

Usage Note

Déportation is feminine and in French has a particularly strong historical resonance with the Nazi deportation of Jews and other groups to concentration camps during World War II. The Mémorial de la Déportation in Paris commemorates this. In a legal/administrative sense it can also mean forced expulsion from a country, but the Holocaust context dominates in French cultural memory.

Examples

"La déportation a marqué des millions de familles."

Natural Translation

The deportation marked millions of families.

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