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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
Callum Sutherland, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
Clashes with protesters After the verdict, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry called on India to extradite Hasina and former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who was also sentenced to death in the same case.
—Ruma Paul, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
She Zhijiang, a Chinese-Cambodian dual citizen accused of running online gambling operations, was extradited from Thailand more than three years after his Bangkok arrest.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2025
In 2009, following an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution warrant, Wiseman was arrested in Spain and extradited back to the United States.
—Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 15 Nov. 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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