expat
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
Short form of expatriate.
[edit] Noun
expat (plural expats)
- An expatriate; a person who lives outside his or her own country.
[edit] Translations
An expatriate
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[edit] Adjective
expat (not comparable)
- The noun used attributively.
- 2003: I wasn’t Henry Miller, I wasn’t Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin, I wasn’t any of those expat guys. — Charles D’Ambrosio, in The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003