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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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Those countries use their airports for much of their food imports and to fly in their largely expatriate workforces.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 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

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

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

The building is in Himbi, a residential neighbourhood of Goma on the shores of Lake Kivu where many expatriates, staff members and headquarters of humanitarian organisations are based.

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

Stranded expatriates and travelers sought private options, with emergency flights costing two to three times regular charter prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 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

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

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

From Reuters Jan. 23, 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

In 1755 we expatriated the entire French population of Acadia.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

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

Sitka Charley, from boyhood, had been thrown continually with white men, and as a man he had elected to cast his fortunes with them, expatriating himself, once and for all, from his own people.

From The Son of the Wolf by London, Jack




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