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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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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

He tells of the Ghadar Movement—the word means rebellion in Urdu—that came to life amid these expatriate workers.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

The club had been largely an expatriate German club that also had Jewish members.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2025

As a former trading colony, South Africa has always had a large expatriate community.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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

Without normal flights or embassy help, expatriates are finding their own options.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 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

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

Anaheim had been settled in the late nineteenth century by German immigrants hoping to create a local wine industry and by a group of Polish expatriates trying to establish a back-to-the-land artistic community.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser

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

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

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

But perhaps the greatest inspiration however came from the life of Smith herself who died in 2010 but, as noted in Rees’ 2008 documentary “Eventual Salvation,” expatriated in Monrovia, Liberia in 1954.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2017

Nearly 1,800 citizens and permanent residents, a record since data was first compiled in 1998, expatriated last year, according to government figures.

From Reuters Jul. 9, 2012

The expatriated poet reached Brussels in safety, but his sons and the rest of the staff of L'Évènement had been cast into prison.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith

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

One of my friends is expatriating himself; I had been to see him off on board the Royal Mail steamer, and was coming back here.

From Father Goriot by Ellen Marriage




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