extradite
/ekstr dit/ • verb hand over (a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in a foreign state) to the jurisdiction of that state. — DERIVATIVES extraditable adjective extradition noun. — ORIGIN from French extradition, from tradition ‘delivery’.
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