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expatriate noun

• a person who lives outside their native country.
• "American expatriates in London"

expatriate adjective

• denoting or relating to a person living outside their native country.
• "expatriate workers"
Similar: emigrant, living abroad, working abroad, non-native, émigré, displaced, refugee, exiled, expat,
Opposite: native, indigenous,

expatriate verb

• send (a person or money) abroad.
• "we expatriated the prisoners of war immediately after the end of the war"
Similar: settle abroad, live abroad, relocate abroad,
Origin: mid 18th century (as a verb): from medieval Latin expatriat- ‘gone out from one's country’, from the verb expatriare, from ex- ‘out’ + patria ‘native country’.


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