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EXPATRIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expatriate mean? 

EXPATRIATE (noun)
  The noun EXPATRIATE has 1 sense:

1. a person who is voluntarily absent from home or countryplay

  Familiarity information: EXPATRIATE used as a noun is very rare.


EXPATRIATE (verb)
  The verb EXPATRIATE has 2 senses:

1. expel from a countryplay

2. move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroadplay

  Familiarity information: EXPATRIATE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXPATRIATE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

exile; expat; expatriate

Context example:

American expatriates

Hypernyms ("expatriate" is a kind of...):

absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expatriate"):

refugee (an exile who flees for safety)

remittance man (an exile living on money sent from home)

Derivation:

expatriate (move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad)


EXPATRIATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they expatriate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it expatriates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: expatriated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: expatriated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: expatriating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Expel from a country

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

deport; exile; expatriate

Context example:

The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions

Hypernyms (to "expatriate" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

repatriate (admit back into the country)

Derivation:

expatriation (the act of expelling a person from their native land)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "expatriate" is one way to...):

emigrate (leave one's country of residence for a new one)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

expatriate (a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country)

expatriation (migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another))


 Context examples 


In short, I had no peace of my life until he was expatriated, and made (as I afterwards heard) a shepherd of, “up the country” somewhere; I have no geographical idea where.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It would have been in vain to represent to such a man as the Worshipful Mr. Creakle, that Twenty Seven and Twenty Eight were perfectly consistent and unchanged; that exactly what they were then, they had always been; that the hypocritical knaves were just the subjects to make that sort of profession in such a place; that they knew its market-value at least as well as we did, in the immediate service it would do them when they were expatriated; in a word, that it was a rotten, hollow, painfully suggestive piece of business altogether.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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