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expatriate

[eks-pey-tree-eyt, -pa-tree-, eks-pey-tree-it, -eyt, -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

Even Leo Stein, the American expatriate proponent of avant-garde art, called it “brilliant and powerful, but the nastiest smear of paint I had ever seen.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Two expatriate workers were moderately hurt and four vehicles were damaged in the strike on Bukha, the Oman News Agency said.

From Barron's May 4, 2026

Co-owner Ranjit Mathrani says generals, civil servants and businesspeople who had links with India first came here, along with expatriate Indians.

From BBC Jan. 31, 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

Furthermore, many specialized engineers and welders have left as Western contractors evacuated expatriates from the conflict zone.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

Once expatriates were included, their voice would aid democracy, he said.

From Barron's Feb. 25, 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

Several hours later, she was one of hundreds of Venezuelan expatriates and Venezuelan Americans who gathered in the Miami suburb of Doral - the hub of South Florida's Venezuelan community - to celebrate.

From BBC Jan. 4, 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

In 1559 these houses were suppressed and the nuns and two friars expatriated, and for a hundred years there was no English Dominican community.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" 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

Expatriā′tion, act of expatriating: exile, voluntary or compulsory.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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