expatriate
to banish (a person) from their native country.
to withdraw (oneself) from residence in one's native country.
to withdraw (oneself) from allegiance to one's country.
to become an expatriate: He expatriated from his homeland.
expatriated; exiled.
an expatriated person: Many American writers were living as expatriates in Paris.
Origin of expatriate
1Other words from expatriate
- ex·pa·tri·a·tion, noun
- self-ex·pa·tri·a·tion, noun
Words Nearby expatriate
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How to use expatriate in a sentence
What I was experiencing, though I didn’t know it, was reverse culture shock, a situation in which expatriates returning to their home country struggle to readjust.
Lee Kyusung, a bar owner from Seoul in South Korea, said he saw less of his expatriate customers, who made up at least 40% of his usual crowd.
Asia Has Kept COVID-19 at Bay for 2 Years. Omicron Could Change That | Chad de Guzman | January 18, 2022 | TimeOn a planet on the move, whether you’re slotted as a refugee, migrant, expatriate, or tourist, can mean, literally, the difference between life and death.
The One Story That Captures the Immigrant Experience Like No Other | Suketu Mehta | September 17, 2021 | TimeThis incident was the reason that the UN ordered the withdrawal of its expatriate staff in Kandahar on March 23 1998 and suspended its humanitarian activities in the south of the country.
Mohammad Hassan Akhund Is to Lead Afghanistan's Government. Here's What to Know about the Taliban's New Prime Minister | Eloise Barry | September 9, 2021 | TimeChina secured Interpol red notices, which are alerts that a country has requested arrest and extradition, for expatriates around the world.
Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | July 22, 2021 | ProPublica
Yet for all his enthusiasm for the American film industry, he remained forever an expatriate.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlex Aciman on two new memoirs of life in Greece and Italy and the tricks that expatriate life can play.
Insider Outsiders: How to Write About Greece and Italy | Alexander Aciman | July 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe stories of girls overseas have not often been part of the canon of American expatriate writing, Kaplan points out.
Must Reads: Kennedy, Sontag and Paris, ‘A Partial History of Lost Causes,’ ‘City of Bohane,’ ‘Flatscreen’ | Lauren Elkin, Mythili Rao, Drew Toal, Nicholas Mancusi | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTo this recently returned expatriate, the latter sounds rather like magical thinking.
The longtime expatriate who came to think of Indonesia as her home raised a steadfast American patriot.
I have no patience with those people who expatriate themselves.
The Memoirs of an American Citizen | Robert HerrickBut it would also have had the determination that he had failed to expatriate himself and that he was an American citizen.
Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThen he prevailed upon the clans to sign a truce and expatriate their chiefs for one year in distant States.
Our Southern Highlanders | Horace KephartThere remained the resource of travel, one of those journeys to countries so distant that they expatriate even the thoughts.
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Alphonse DaudetWas he supposed to wait patiently until she returned, or to expatriate himself in order to join her?
The Heart of Una Sackville | Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
British Dictionary definitions for expatriate
resident in a foreign country
exiled or banished from one's native country: an expatriate American
a person who lives in a foreign country
an exile; expatriate person
to exile (oneself) from one's native country or cause (another) to go into exile
to deprive (oneself or another) of citizenship
Origin of expatriate
1Derived forms of expatriate
- expatriation, noun
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