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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
Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
He was arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania six weeks after the murders and extradited to Idaho.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
The former Washington State University doctoral student was arrested in Pennsylvania on December 30, 2022, and later extradited to Idaho to face trial.
—Hannah Parry
jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
Prosecutors will seek to extradite him to the San Luis Valley, the district attorney’s office said.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 20 June 2025
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
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