EXPATRIATE

Expatriate

An expatriate is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of the person's upbringing. The word comes from the Latin terms ex and patria .

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expatriate

Noun

  1. One who lives outside one’s own country.
  2. One who has been banished from one’s own country.

Verb

  1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  2. To withdraw from one’s native country.
  3. To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Adjective

  1. Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.


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