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
Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Zoom in: Americans are a big part of Spain's expatriate boom.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Jan. 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
Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Unsurprisingly, the proposal has been met with enthusiasm from expatriate advocacy groups, who see it as a long-overdue step toward fairer tax treatment.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Property transferred to a U.S. recipient because the covered expatriate made a qualified disclaimer with respect to the asset.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Zoom in: Americans are a big part of Spain's expatriate boom.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Jan. 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
In the Anderson Valley, Roederer Estate, arguably the most qualitatively successful of all the expatriate houses, has been run for many years by Frenchman Arnaud Weyrich, who couldn’t help but notice the success of Cruse and others.
—Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Unsurprisingly, the proposal has been met with enthusiasm from expatriate advocacy groups, who see it as a long-overdue step toward fairer tax treatment.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expatriate
Noun
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Over a decade ago, the Department of Defense warned that climate change would exacerbate natural disasters, refugee crises, and resource conflicts.—
Anjali Chaudhry,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Bright bursts of color: Born into war, Abdi finds peace in a refugee camp Abdi came to a Kenyan refugee camp in the arms of her mother, a baby born to a country at war.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The unlikely foursome's journey leads them into the Exclusion Zone, where robots have been exiled after Mr. Peanut (Woody Harrelson) signed a peace treaty with President Clinton.—
Skyler Trepel,
People.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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Women filmmakers working on British shores like Muriel Box, Wendy Toye, Margaret Tait, and Jill Craigie as well as American filmmakers exiled to the UK by the anti-Communist blacklist like Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, and Edward Dmytryk will also feature.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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For many parts of the U.S., banishing cars simply isn’t realistic in the absence of comprehensive public transportation and high-density redesigns that often lack political or taxpayer backing.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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Patrick, born Roman, raised Welsh, and famously credited with banishing snakes from Ireland (a reptilian issue geology had resolved millennia before) dominates the global imagination.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Once registered, foreign providers are required to issue compliant invoices for sales to Philippine customers.—
Aleksandra Bal,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Each team has a distinct identity to lean on and can get the other side into foreign tempos.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Expatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expatriate. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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