Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To send into exile.
- intransitive verb To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
- intransitive verb To give up residence in one's homeland.
- intransitive verb To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.
- noun One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.
- noun One who has renounced one's native land.
- adjective Residing in a foreign country; expatriated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To banish; send out of one's native country.
- Reflexively, to withdraw from one's native country; renounce the rights of citizenship where one was born, and become a citizen of another country.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
- transitive verb Reflexively, as
To expatriate one's self : To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
- noun One who lives outside one’s own
country . - noun One who has been
banished from one’s own country. - verb transitive To
banish ; todrive orforce (a person) from his owncountry ; to make anexile of. - verb intransitive To
withdraw from one’snative country. - verb intransitive To
renounce therights andliabilities ofcitizenship where one is born and become acitizen of another country.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb expel from a country
- verb move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
- noun a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Twombly profited from the global economy, and yet as an individual and an artist he was very much of a particular milieu, that of the American sophisticate in Europe although he hated the label "expatriate".
Cy Twombly obituary 2011
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The term expatriate is also an unfriendly term for a society that relies heavily on the industry of tourism to generate revenue and partially built on the backs of guest workers from other countries and cultures.
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term. gpkisner
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term. gpkisner
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term.
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term.
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term. gpkisner
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term.
Page 2 2009
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term.
Page 2 2009
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For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term. gpkisner
Page 2 2009
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