expatriate
- Adjective. Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
- Noun. One who lives outside one’s own country.
- Noun. One who has been banished from one’s own country.
- Verb. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
- Verb. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
- 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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