Extradite

WORD OF THE DAY

extradite / verb / EK-struh-dyte

Definition
1: to deliver up to extradition
2: to obtain the extradition of

Examples
"The U.S. State Department on Friday asked authorities in El Salvador to 'immediately' extradite leaders of the international criminal gang MS-13 to be put on trial in the United States."
— Nelson Renteria and Brendan O'Boyle, Reuters, 24 June 2022

Sweden and Finland applied for membership in May, but their entry appeared to hit a snag when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that the countries extradite members of a Kurdish rebel group that Turkey considers terrorists.
— Paul Best, Fox News, 6 July 2022

Did You Know?
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.”