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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
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
Glinda doesn’t have the patience or pull needed to extradite a wealthy man from the United States.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Nov. 2025
Pras was also accused of using this money to create a back-channel campaign to extradite the Chinese dissident Guo Wengui back to China from the United States.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Nov. 2025
After violating the terms of his mandatory reentry supervision program by failing to register as a felon within 48 hours, Exantus was extradited from Florida back to Kentucky.
—Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Nov. 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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