expatriate

  1. Adjective.  Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
  2. Noun.  One who lives outside one’s own country.
  3. Noun.  One who has been banished from one’s own country.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

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