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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
Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 July 2024
She was arrested two months later and extradited to Miami from Hawaii.
Friction between prosecutors and defense attorneys was almost immediate.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
At the request of the United States, Honduran police arrested Hernández within weeks of his departure from office in January 2022, and he was extradited to face federal charges in New York.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
He was arrested June 14 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and extradited Thursday to Maryland.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2024
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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extradite
transitive verb
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