expatriate
Pronunciation
  • Adjective and noun: IPA: /ɛksˈpætɹɪɪt/, /ɛksˈpeɪ.tɹi.ɪt/
  • Verb: IPA: /ɛksˈpætɹɪˌeɪt/, /ɛksˈpeɪ.tɹiˌeɪt/
Adjective

expatriate (not comparable)

  1. Living outside of one's own country.
    an expatriate rebel force
Translations Noun

expatriate (plural expatriates)

  1. One who lives outside their own country.
    1. One who has been banished from their own country.
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expatriate (expatriates, present participle expatriating; past and past participle expatriated)

  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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  • Russian: эмигри́ровать



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