expatriate
Living outside of one's own countryLiving outside of one's own country.
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» Tom is an expatriate.
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1 senses(not comparable)Living outside of one's own country.
an expatriate rebel force
im Ausland lebend
эмигра́нтскийemigrántskij
Examples
6 sentencesTom is an expatriate.
Algeria has a big expatriated population.
She wants to expatriate.
I work with a group of Algerian expatriates.
With JAL tickets so expensive, expatriates flew Air Iraq.
Translations
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Origin
The verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from MedievalThe verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from Medieval Latin expatriātus, perfect passive participle of expatriō (“to banish”) (see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3)), from Latin ex- (“out of”) + patria (“native land”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); possibly after French expatrier and expatrié.
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