Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Deportation \De`por*ta"tion\, n. [L. depotatio: cf. F.
   d['e]portation.]
   The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being
   deported; banishment; transportation.

         In their deportations, they had often the favor of
         their conquerors.                        --Atterbury.

Source : WordNet®

deportation
     n 1: the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men
          in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal
          colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the
          sentence was one of transportation for life" [syn: {exile},
           {expatriation}, {transportation}]
     2: the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien