EXPATRIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expatriation mean? 

• EXPATRIATION (noun)
  The noun EXPATRIATION has 2 senses:

1. the act of expelling a person from their native land

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

  Familiarity information: EXPATRIATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPATRIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of expelling a person from their native land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation

Context example:

the sentence was one of transportation for life

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

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Instance hyponyms:

Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)

Derivation:

expatriate (expel from a country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emigration; expatriation; out-migration

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

migration (the movement of persons from one country or locality to another)

Derivation:

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