expatriate

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[edit] Adjective

expatriate (not comparable)

Positive
expatriate

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
    • an expatriate mailing list

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[edit] Noun

Singular
expatriate

Plural
expatriates

expatriate (plural expatriates)

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

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to expatriate

Third person singular
expatriates

Simple past
expatriating

Past participle
expatriating

Present participle
expatriated

to expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriated, simple past and past participle expatriating)

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

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