self-deport

English

Etymology

self- +‎ deport

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To evict oneself, especially from a country.
    • 2020, Alan E. Sparks, Into the Carpathians:
      In total, at least 620,000 “Ukrainians” self-deported or were deported from Poland and at least 13,000 self-deported from Czechoslovakia to Ukraine.
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