Associations to the word «Expatriate»

Wiktionary

EXPATRIATE, adjective. Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
EXPATRIATE, noun. One who lives outside one’s own country.
EXPATRIATE, noun. One who has been banished from one’s own country.
EXPATRIATE, verb. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
EXPATRIATE, verb. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
EXPATRIATE, verb. (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Dictionary definition

EXPATRIATE, noun. A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates".
EXPATRIATE, verb. Expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions".
EXPATRIATE, verb. Move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad.

Wise words

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