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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
Molly Quell, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Authorities obtained an extraditable arrest warrant for the teen, who was later located in Alabama and then extradited to Connecticut.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
He was extradited later that year and sentenced in 2024.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
Despite his government’s refusal to extradite gang bosses to the United States, the Trump administration in March deported one MS-13 leader accused of terrorism.
—T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 June 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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