deportable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His criminal convictions — for an attempted robbery in 2003, and for breaking into two parked cars to steal stereos in 2005 — were more than enough to make him deportable."
- "They repeatedly passed up the invitation to check a list of 96 deportable gang associates active in Nassau County against a local police database that is updated daily, he said."
- "4. Deportables as a group show a death rate of 42. Our immigrants who have been in Canada over five years, show a rate of 36. The deportables have a higher rate, chiefly, no doubt, because they are on the average five years or more younger. The death rate of 21 in deportables from the British Isles is lower than our provincial rate of 28; the rate of those from Europe is to our rate as 47 is to 28; […]"
- "Comparing the incidence of cases with bacillary sputum, 69.2 per cent of the deportables showed bacilli on admission, in contrast with 45 per cent among provincial cases. Outcome was poor among the deportables; 41.7 per cent died."
- "At least 50 per cent of the deportables who broke down had tuberculosis on entering Canada. Sanatorium treatment for 185 deportables cost Saskatchewan $196,- 237.25."
- "These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables under the catch-all provision making any alien who shall come to the United States in violation of law deportable."
Etymology
Etymology tree English deport Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English deportable From deport + -able.