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BNC: 10531 COCA: 13251

expatriate

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expatriate /ɛkˈspeɪtrijət/ Brit /ɛkˈspætriət/ noun
plural expatriates
expatriate
/ɛkˈspeɪtrijət/ Brit /ɛkˈspætriət/
noun
plural expatriates
Learner's definition of EXPATRIATE
[count]
: a person who lives in a foreign country移居国外的人;侨民

— expatriate

adjective, always used before a noun
BNC: 10531 COCA: 13251

expatriate

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verb

ex·​pa·​tri·​ate ek-ˈspā-trē-ˌāt How to pronounce expatriate (audio)
expatriated; expatriating

transitive verb

1
2
: to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country

intransitive verb

: to leave one's native country to live elsewhere
also : to renounce allegiance to one's native country

expatriate

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adjective

ex·​pa·​tri·​ate ek-ˈspā-trē-ət How to pronounce expatriate (audio) -trē-ˌāt How to pronounce expatriate (audio)
: living in a foreign land

expatriate

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noun

ex·​pa·​tri·​ate ek-ˈspā-trē-ət How to pronounce expatriate (audio) -trē-ˌāt How to pronounce expatriate (audio)
: a person who lives in a foreign country
Hemingway himself in The Sun Also Rises, 1926, had given the picture of the dislocated life of young English and American expatriates in the bars of Paris, the "lost generation," as Gertrude Stein defined them. Robert Penn Warren

Example Sentences

Verb members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Her network of Black travelers boasts 20,000 members who've visited regions all over the world – 19% of the community have also chosen to expatriate. Keturah Kendrick, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022 The city is now a tourist and expatriate destination. Peter Canby, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022 Maybe some of them will try to move, expatriate, or do an inversion. Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 18 May 2021 The building still housed a small but interesting collection of maps, rare books, and historical newspapers from Tangier, as well as a collection of art by some of the city’s famous Moroccan and expatriate artist residents. Graham Cornwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2021 Gifts must be made long enough in advance that there is no appearance of a plan to gift and then expatriate, but a recent law might have made this more appealing. Jo Craven Mcginty, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020 Qatar is renewing efforts to make real estate more attractive to expatriate residents, foreign investors and real estate funds. Simone Foxman, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2020 The protection of students’ ability to express themselves freely should extend to expatriate communities. H. R. Mcmaster, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020 Turkey has already expatriated some 7,600 suspected fighters over the past several years, officials in Ankara say. The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
Adjective
Hong Kong doesn’t allow it, but does permit gay expatriate workers to bring their spouses in on dependent visas. Yongchang Chin, Bloomberg.com, 5 Aug. 2022 Later that year, Barnes himself bought more Cézannes in Paris, accompanied by the expatriate American modernist Alfred Maurer, expanding his holdings of the artist’s preferred motifs. Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2022 Haiti is one of about a dozen countries where Christian Aid Ministries has expatriate staff on the ground year round with local partners, said Dr. Nolt. Kris Maher, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021 The inaccuracies are shared back through YouTube videos or messaging apps with Spanish speakers in expatriate communities like those in Miami and Houston. Amanda Seitz And Will Weissert, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2021 His friend Jean André Rouquet, an expatriate Swiss miniaturist, helped to establish Hogarth’s reputation in Europe by publishing a French-language monograph of his engravings. Tobias Grey, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021 By the end of 2015, all but one of the expatriate workers on the ship had evacuated. The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021 Dubai has always embraced expatriate workers from around the world. Ellen Paris, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021 The following month, expatriate Koreans espousing varied but mostly liberal-democratic views formed a provisional government in Shanghai, as if to ready Korea for independence. E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
Noun
Boyden has 75 offices in more than 45 countries; Farrell, an American expatriate, has lived in Asia since 1987 and joined Boyden in 1993. Russell Flannery, Forbes, 21 June 2022 Lattimore went on to record an album of discursive duets with her neighbor in Los Angeles, the fellow Philadelphia expatriate Paul Sukeena, and two luminous drones with the instrumental duo Growing. New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021 The duo plans to develop the plot into a 520-unit residential development in a neighborhood that’s near popular schools, the One North business park as well as the expatriate enclave of Holland Village. Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 3 June 2022 The countries there are also home to a large Indian expatriate community. Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 6 June 2022 Two gigaprojects recently merged, three have lost their expatriate chief executives and all have turned over senior management. Rory Jones, WSJ, 31 May 2022 Chaoyang is home to one of Beijing’s key central business districts, most foreign embassies and a lot of its expatriate community. Bloomberg News, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022 The Paris film, directed by Michka Saäl, features expatriate and French musicians Ford had gathered for a similar photo. Bill Beuttler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022 The Times last year published a sort of diary in which Geoffrey Woo, one such expatriate, wrote about his relocation to Miami to flee the crime and pandemic lockdown of San Francisco. Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Verb

Medieval Latin expatriatus, past participle of expatriare to leave one's own country, from Latin ex- + patria native country, from feminine of patrius of a father, from patr-, pater father — more at father

First Known Use

Verb

1768, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Adjective

1812, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1818, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of expatriate was in 1768
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