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Extradite and its related noun extradition are both ultimately Latin in origin: their source is tradition-, tradition, meaning “the act of handing over.” (The word tradition, though centuries older, has the same source; consider tradition as something handed over from one generation to the next.) While extradition and extradite are of 19th century vintage, the U.S. Constitution, written in 1787, addresses the idea in Article IV: “A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.”
Examples of extradite in a Sentence
Arkansas Online, 5 Feb. 2026
Investigators quickly determined Alvarado had fled the country after the shooting, but cops caught up with him in Medellin, Colombia, in February 2024, and he was extradited back to New Jersey in December 2025, the prosecutor’s office said.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
Michael McKee, 39, Monique's ex-husband from nearly a decade ago was arrested 11 days later in Illinois, and has since been extradited to Ohio to face murder charges.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
Alvarez-Cabrera was captured in Mexico in September and extradited to South Florida.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
