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What does patriate mean?

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Verb
  1. (Canada, transitive) To assume control of (a governmental power) from a former mother country.
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They have to patriate that back to the original country, so I know that it's being shipped back to Japan, for example.
With these brief historic notes, Canada became the first Commonwealth country to patriate the practice of this ancient authority.
As far as I know, he had not been given any democratic mandate to patriate the Constitution, but he did just the same.
On constitutional issues his court ruled on Trudeau's move to patriate the constitution unilaterally without the provinces.
Bourassa had been a leader in forming a common front of provincial opposition to Prime Minister Trudeau's plans to patriate the Constitution.
Funds are also available to repatriate or patriate cultural property related to Canada's heritage that is being offered for sale on the international market.

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