expatriate

From French expatrié, from ex- (“out of”) + patrie (“native land”).

• Adjective and noun: IPA^(key): /ɛksˈpætɹi.ɪt/, /ɛksˈpeɪ.tɹi.ɪt/

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• Verb: IPA^(key): /ɛksˈpætɹɪ.eɪt/, /ɛksˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧pa‧tri‧ate

expatriate (not comparable)

1. Living outside of one's own country.

   Synonyms: émigré, outland, emigrant, immigrant

   an expatriate rebel force

expatriate (plural expatriates)

1. One who lives outside one's own country.

   Synonyms: émigré, outlander, emigrant, immigrant

   1. One who has been banished from one's own country.

• expat, rex-patriate, Texpatriate

• inpatriate
• repatriate

• emigrant
• exile
• immigrant

expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriating, simple 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.

• repatriate
• patriate

expatriate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of expatriar combined with te