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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
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Once the case in Romania concludes, authorities pledged to honor the UK's request to extradite them to face trial in Britain for the separate allegations of rape and human trafficking involving different women between 2012 and 2015.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Romanian courts have issued an order to extradite the two to the U.K. once their court case is concluded, British prosecutors said.
—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 28 May 2025
He was extradited back to Canada two weeks later and arrested.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 25 May 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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extradite
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extradite
transitive verb
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