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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
Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Dec. 2025
He is expected to be extradited to New York in the coming days.
—CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Mangione has been incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since he was extradited to New York after his arrest in December 2024.
—Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
He was later extradited to Austria and questioned for several hours by police on Friday, but had so far failed to provide any information.
—Jami Ganz, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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