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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
Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
He was booked into the Orange County Jail and will be extradited to Georgia, per WSB-TV.
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—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Petrov was arrested in Cyprus in August 2023 at the request of the U.S. on charges of smuggling sensitive microelectronics to Russia and extradited to the U.S. a year later.
—Associated Press, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Petrov was detained in Cyprus in 2023 at the request of the U.S. and later extradited.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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