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    [Verb]  | "ex*pa*tri*ate" | \ ek-ˈspā-trē-ˌāt \


    1: banish, exile

    2: to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country

    3: to leave one's native country to live elsewhere; also : to renounce allegiance to one's native country


    Origin: 1768 ;

     Medieval Latin expatriatus, past participle of expatriare to leave one's own country, from Latin ex- + patria native country, from feminine of patrius of a father, from patr-, pater father {mat|father|};

    [Noun]  | "ex*pa*tri*ate" | \ ek-ˈspā-trē-ət \


    1: a person who lives in a foreign country


    Origin: 1818 ;

    [Noun]  | "expatriates" 


    1: a person forced to emigrate for political reasons;


      * e.g., " ... while in exile, the deposed king was accompanied by a small band of loyal expatriates "



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    [Noun]  | "expatriate" 


    1: a person forced to emigrate for political reasons;


      * e.g., " ... while in exile, the deposed king was accompanied by a small band of loyal expatriates "



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    [Verb]  | "expatriates" 


    1: to force to leave a country;


      * e.g., " ... members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well "



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    [Verb]  | "expatriate" 


    1: to force to leave a country;


      * e.g., " ... members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well "



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     [ "expatriate" ]

    1: A citizen of one country living in another.

      * e.g.,  ... In the early 1900's, Paris was the home of many American expatriates. 

     [ "expatriate" ]

    1: I'm not sure what new hip meaning it has now, but in whiteyville it means:

      * e.g.,  ... Sean Penn used to live in America, but he moved to France, because he's a hippie expatriate. 


     [ "expatriate" ]

    2: One who used to live in this country but now lives in that country.

     [ "expatriate" ]

    1: A person living outside his or her country.

      * e.g.,  ... The American expatriates in Paris are gay. 

     [ "expatriate" ]

    1: To kill by removing someone's skin, therefore making them melt. Extremely gross, and you should just use a gun.

      * e.g.,  ... Bob: Hey Kenthar, do you want to hear about how I expatriated this guy the other night? 

     [ "expatriate myopia" ]

    1: a form of blindness resulting from having travelled to a remote part of the planet, under very difficult conditions, only to realise that there's a tour group there. Expatriate myopia causes you to not see the tour bus, the group or any individual that may remotely come from where you're from. It's often accompanied by deafness. Usually contracted by backpackers...

      * e.g.,  ... Diane developed expatriate myopia in Bakit Lawang, having arrive there after a 23 hour bus trip, only to find that every room was taken by Australian Year 12 students on schoolies. 

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