Expatriate
-noun
-noun
- An exile: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates"
- One who lives outside one’s own country;
- One who has been banished from one’s own country;
- A person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
- Someone who lives outside their home country for work or lifestyle purposes.
-verbs
-synonyms
- To expel from a country;
- To move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
- To banish (a person) from his or her native country;
- To drive or force (a person) from his own country;
- To make an exile of;
- To withdraw from (oneself) from residence and or allegiance in ones native country;
- To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born.
-synonyms
- banish, deport, displace, exile, expel, expulse, ostracize, oust, proscribe, relegate, transport
- departer, deportee, displaced person, emigrant, evacuee, exile, expellee, migrant, outcast, refugee, émigré
- 1768, from French expatrier "banish," from ex- "out of" + patrie "native land,
- From L. patria "one's native country," from pater (gen. patris) "father."
- The noun is from 1818, "one who has been banished;"
- Main modern sense of "one who chooses to live abroad" is 1902.
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