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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
Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 28 Oct. 2025
After nearly three years, Hernandez Murcia was extradited this week from the Chesapeake Correctional Center in Virginia and booked Tuesday into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
McGovern was extradited in May and is now enjoying the sparse comforts of Portlaoise Prison; his trial will likely begin next year.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Humphrey was arrested at his home on a separate, unrelated federal warrant for narcotics charges and extradited to California.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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