expatriation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French expatriation,[1] or from expatriate + -ion.[2]
Noun
[edit]expatriation (countable and uncountable, plural expatriations)
- Voluntary migration from one's native land to another.
- Forced expulsion of from one's native land to another.
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “expatriation (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “expatriation, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]expatriation f (plural expatriations)
Further reading
[edit]- “expatriation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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