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Expatriate

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Noun

1. exile, expat, expatriate

a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

Example Sentences:
'American expatriates'

Verb

2. deport, exile, expatriate

expel from a country

Example Sentences:
'The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions'

3. expatriate

move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Expatriate

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adjective (ɛksˈpætrɪɪt , -ˌeɪt)
1. 
resident in a foreign country
2. 
exiled or banished from one's native country
an expatriate American
noun (ɛksˈpætrɪɪt , -ˌeɪt)
3. 
a person who lives in a foreign country
4. 
an exile; expatriate person
verb (ɛksˈpætrɪˌeɪt ) (transitive)
5. 
to exile (oneself) from one's native country or cause (another) to go into exile
6. 
to deprive (oneself or another) of citizenship

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Expatriate

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verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: exˈpatriˌated or exˈpatriˌating
1. 
to drive (a person) from his or her native land; exile
2. 
to withdraw (oneself) from one's native land or from allegiance to it
adjective
3. 
that has become an expatriate; expatriated
noun
4. 
an expatriated person

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Expatriate

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v. ex·pa·tri·at·ed, ex·pa·tri·at·ing, ex·pa·tri·ates
v.tr.
1. To send into exile: They were expatriated because of their political beliefs.
2. To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
v.intr.
1. To give up residence in one's homeland.
2. To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.
n. (-ĭt, -āt)
1. One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.
2. One who has renounced one's native land.
adj. (-ĭt, -āt)
Residing in a foreign country; expatriated: "She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome" (Janet H. Murray).

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