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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
Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
In January 2023, Filion was extradited to Florida from California after having swatted a mosque months earlier in Sanford, Florida.
—Michael Kosnar, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
The boy was extradited to Chicago, where he has been charged as a juvenile, the Cook County State’s Attorney Office confirmed to NBC Chicago.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
He was taken into custody at his home in Oceanside, California, and extradited to Florida.
—Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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