extraditable

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Can be sent to another country to face trial or punishment

adjective
/ˈɛkstrəˌdaɪtəbl/

Formal

: extraditable

Police are asking for the public's help in finding Hoston, who is considered 'armed and dangerous,' and has a nationwide extraditable felony warrant in King County for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm and Reckless Endangerment.

Examples

Thanks to these allegations, Q13 reports that a $50,000 nationwide extraditable warrant has been issued for Hoston's arrest.

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The court issued an extraditable warrant to send the suspect to another state for trial.
He is currently facing charges that make him extraditable to the country where the crime was committed.
The diplomat confirmed that the agreement allows for extraditable offenses between the two nations.

Surface Forms

extraditable positive

Morphology

extraditable = extradite (transparent) = ex + tradit + able

This is a regular and fully compositional adjective meaning 'able to be extradited' from the verb 'extradite'.

Etymology

Extraditable comes from Latin parts extra- (like in extra, meaning 'outside') and tradere meaning 'to hand over'. So something 'extraditable' can be 'handed over' to another country for trial or punishment.