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All expatriate synonyms

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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.
  • departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys
  • deportee — A deportee is someone who is being deported.
  • outcast — a falling out; quarrel.
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • emigre — One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee.

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.
  • oust — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
  • proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • relegate — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
  • transport — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.

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.
  • transoceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
  • nonnative — of or relating to a language that is not the first language acquired by a person: It is harder to communicate in your nonnative language.
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