as in to exile
to force to leave a country
members of the deposed dictator's once-feared political party were expatriated as well
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as in immigrant
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Recent Examples of expatriate
Jason Phillips, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
States with net losses of residents are developing innovative and aggressive ways to capture tax revenue from their expatriates.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
These men had not fallen in love with the Caribbean island on a beach vacation or expatriated there for a simpler life.
—Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
This region shares strong diplomatic and trade relations with India, has a large expatriate Indian population with high digital adoption rates and favorable local regulations with growing government initiatives to support tech startups.
—Praneeta Pujari, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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Noun
This work provided a full understanding of Japanese business culture and granted her the opportunity to live for five years as an expatriate in Silicon Valley.
—Jason Phillips, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
States with net losses of residents are developing innovative and aggressive ways to capture tax revenue from their expatriates.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
Turgenev was also one of the earliest Russian writers to be lionized by Westerners—not just by close friends like Flaubert but also by later figures (some of them expatriates themselves), such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad.
—The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
These men had not fallen in love with the Caribbean island on a beach vacation or expatriated there for a simpler life.
—Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
Adjective
After nearly a decade in expatriate limbo, word finally came that the Abdis’ refugee application had been accepted.
—Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
This region shares strong diplomatic and trade relations with India, has a large expatriate Indian population with high digital adoption rates and favorable local regulations with growing government initiatives to support tech startups.
—Praneeta Pujari, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expatriate
Noun
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This story has been updated to reflect the shooting incident occurred near the Jenin refugee camp, not within the camp.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
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Erdogan said a committee had been formed to work out what to do with the prisoners, particularly women and children held at refugee camps such as Al-Hol in northern Syria.—
Andrew Wilks,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
Verb
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With Waltz exiled to New York, Rubio must keep striving to keep Trump and the U.S. government true to friends like Ukraine and wary of deals with Putin.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2025
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His older sons had become enthusiastic crypto proponents after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol effectively exiled the family business from the mainstream financial system.—
Eric Lipton,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Brown fouled out with 2:50 left in the third quarter, banished to the Phantom Zone, hanging up his cape with 20 points on 8-for-20 shooting.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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After her run as a handmaid (when women are forced to produce children for the elite ruling families of Gilead) and having her baby taken away, Janine was banished to the world’s wasteland called the Colonies.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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The Israeli foreign ministry identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Visibly, at least, the British government has been unwilling to exert meaningful pressure on the Egyptian authorities, despite the U.K. being Egypt’s third-largest foreign investor and a major supplier of military training and equipment.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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“Expatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expatriate. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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