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expatriate

[eks-pay-tree-ayt, -pa-tree-, eks-pay-tree-it, -ayt, -pa-tree-] / ɛksˈpeɪ triˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri-, ɛksˈpeɪ tri ɪt, -ˌeɪt, -ˈpæ tri- /
NOUN
person who lives outside their country
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NOUN
person forced out of their country
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However Gilpin believes that the history of the Six Nations and its ability to connect with expatriate fans in the United States could be a useful tool to crack America further.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

In Canton, painters like Lam Qua headed ateliers devoted to Export art, adapting styles from expatriate artists such as George Chinnery to gain foreign clientele.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Petrović had become the latest victim of a concerning trend for foreign travellers and expatriate workers in West Africa's Sahel region.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

The embassy in Tehran usually counts around 30 expatriate employees, as well as a few dozen local staff members.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

In Brazilian terms, it was like abandoning a glamorous expatriate life in Paris to come back to Chicago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Witnesses say the drones hit Lake Kivu and a two-storey residential building frequently occupied by expatriates and aid workers in the rebel-held city early on Wednesday morning.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

But as thousands of stranded travelers and trapped expatriates were shocked to learn in the past week, the problem now is getting out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

His massive social and economic development plan, called Vision 2030, aims to brighten Saudi Arabia’s global image, woo international tourists and high-skilled expatriates from the West and wean the kingdom off its reliance on petrodollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Since 2008, the U.S. has required expatriates with assets above $2 million pay a steep “exit tax” on the appreciation of all their property.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

The author Julian Mayfield seemed to be the leader of Ghana’s little colony of Afro-American expatriates.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The story follows a Russian writer named M, who has expatriated to someplace in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

The following year, an appraiser Ver hired to value his companies asked him in an email to provide the number of Bitcoins he owned when he expatriated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Along with his second wife, Shirley Graham, Du Bois expatriated to Ghana in his final years, where he joined an ensemble of Pan-Africanists dedicated to President Kwame Nkrumah’s extraordinary experiment in postcolonial nation-building.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

In London in the 1950s, Soros was a student of the expatriated Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, who championed the notion of an “open society,” in which individual liberty, pluralism and free inquiry prevailed.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2018

Now I could no more brook living as tapestry in America than I could live as an American in Europe, expatriated and trivially evaporating amid beauties and comforts that were none of my native heritage.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

Not too long ago, I was speaking with a friend who recently left journalism for much more lucrative pastures, and who is seriously thinking about expatriating from the United States.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

As if we needed another reason to dream longingly of expatriating.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2018

He did this by expatriating money using mirror trades.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2016

Nobuoka also said she thinks about expatriating but still hopes the country will change.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2016

Whether the nobility of the Bourbons take the step of expatriating itself again, or consent to live among us, is no concern of ours.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon




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