noun
- a person who is transported, especially a convict sent to a penal colony
Usage: historical
Examples
- The transportee was sent to Australia as punishment for theft.
- Many transportees never returned to their homeland.
- Records show that thousands of transportees arrived in the colonies during the 18th century.
- The transportee’s family received no word of his fate for years.
- Life as a transportee in the penal colony was harsh and unforgiving.