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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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The closest it has come to playing an international match was when representative teams faced a Solomon Islands expatriate team in 1994 and a refugee side in 2014.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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

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

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

Between the windows some ancient wooden santos, and a couple of newer ones that had been carved and painted by the expatriate Snuffy Ledoux, were hanging.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

These attacks, plus a long list of murders of expatriates in Europe, happened when the oft-described “pragmatist,” Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani still dominated Tehran and controlled the Intelligence Ministry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

The Expo attracted expatriates who "want a dynamic life, close to fashion and design", said Diletta Giorgolo Spinola, head of residential offerings in Italy for Sotheby's.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 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

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

Cassatt, who was born into enormous wealth in Pittsburgh and spent most of her life expatriated to France, fell out of fashion after her death, in 1926, at age 82.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

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

Department of Justice says was an early promoter of bitcoin who expatriated himself from the United States in 2014.

From Reuters ● Jan. 23, 2023

I have known thousands of genteel young men similarly expatriated; and who, armed with letters of introduction and recommendation, had landed in the colonies, under the belief that they were very much wanted there.

From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach

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

We might be led to say, that man, when expatriating himself; is desirous that everything should change country with him.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross




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