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expatriate

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • \ek-ˈspā-trē-ˌāt\
    • /ekˈspæt.ri.ət/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • \ek-ˈspā-trē-ˌāt\

Definitions of expatriate word

  • noun expatriate A person who lives outside their native country. 1
  • noun expatriate person living abroad 1
  • transitive verb expatriate exile, deport 1
  • adjective expatriate person: living abroad 1
  • countable noun expatriate An expatriate is someone who is living in a country which is not their own. 0
  • countable noun expatriate Expatriate is also an adjective. 0
See all 22 definitions of expatriate

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Parts of speech for Expatriate

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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expatriate popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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Synonyms for expatriate

noun expatriate

  • emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
  • evacuee — A person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe.
  • exile — The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.
  • migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.

verb expatriate

  • banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
  • deport — If a government deports someone, usually someone who is not a citizen of that country, it sends them out of the country because they have committed a crime or because it believes they do not have the right to be there.
  • displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
  • ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
  • ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.

adjective expatriate

  • nationless — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
  • stateless — lacking nationality.
  • nonresident — not resident in a particular place.
  • foreign — of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native: foreign cars.
  • colonial — Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.
All 26 Synonyms of expatriate

Antonyms for expatriate

noun expatriate

  • native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.

verb expatriate

  • admit — If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
  • allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
  • hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
All 8 Antonyms of expatriate

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