Meaning of EXPATRIATE
| Pronunciation: | | [n]eks'peytree`it, [v]eks'peytree`eyt, ek'speytree`eyt
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- [n] voluntarily absent from home or country
- [v] move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
- [v] expel from a country
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| | Synonyms: | | deport, exile, exile |
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| | Antonyms: | | repatriate | | |
| | See Also: | | absentee, emigrate, expel, kick out, refugee, remittance man, throw out | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*pa"tri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expatriated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Expatriating}.] [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of
expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr.
pater father. See {Patriot}.]
1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own
country; to make an exile of.
The expatriated landed interest of France. --Burke.
2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from
one's native country; to renounce the rights and
liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a
citizen of another country.
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