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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
Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Bangladesh sent a formal request to India to extradite Hasina in December.
—Arkansas Online, 2 June 2025
He is expected to be released in 2036, at which point Peruvian authorities will extradite him back to the United States to serve his concurrent 20-year sentence for Holloway's murder.
—Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
Zamora was arrested in Fargo and is being held at the Cass County Jail until she can be extradited back to Moorhead.
—Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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