expatriate
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[edit] Adjective
expatriate (not comparable)
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- Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
- an expatriate mailing list
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of people who are expatriates
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[edit] Noun
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expatriate (plural expatriates)
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person living outside own country
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person who has been banished from his own country
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[edit] Verb
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to expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriated, simple past and past participle expatriating)
- (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
- (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
- (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
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banish
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withdraw from one’s country
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renounce citizenship and become a citizen of another country
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