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expatriate

noun as in person who lives outside their country

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noun as in person forced out of their country

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verb as in throw out of a country

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What I was experiencing, though I didn’t know it, was reverse culture shock, a situation in which expatriates returning to their home country struggle to readjust.

Lee Kyusung, a bar owner from Seoul in South Korea, said he saw less of his expatriate customers, who made up at least 40% of his usual crowd.

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On a planet on the move, whether you’re slotted as a refugee, migrant, expatriate, or tourist, can mean, literally, the difference between life and death.

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This incident was the reason that the UN ordered the withdrawal of its expatriate staff in Kandahar on March 23 1998 and suspended its humanitarian activities in the south of the country.

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China secured Interpol red notices, which are alerts that a country has requested arrest and extradition, for expatriates around the world.

Yet for all his enthusiasm for the American film industry, he remained forever an expatriate.

Alex Aciman on two new memoirs of life in Greece and Italy and the tricks that expatriate life can play.

The stories of girls overseas have not often been part of the canon of American expatriate writing, Kaplan points out.

To this recently returned expatriate, the latter sounds rather like magical thinking.

The longtime expatriate who came to think of Indonesia as her home raised a steadfast American patriot.

I have no patience with those people who expatriate themselves.

But it would also have had the determination that he had failed to expatriate himself and that he was an American citizen.

Then he prevailed upon the clans to sign a truce and expatriate their chiefs for one year in distant States.

There remained the resource of travel, one of those journeys to countries so distant that they expatriate even the thoughts.

Was he supposed to wait patiently until she returned, or to expatriate himself in order to join her?

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expatriate, such as: emigrant, émigré, expat, alien, foreigner, and migrant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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