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expatriate

ex·pat·riate

UK/ɛksˈpætɹɪ.eɪt/ US/ɛksˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/ uncommon
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

voluntarily absent from home or country

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1.

expel from a country

  • “The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government”
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Origin

The verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from Medieval Latin expatriātus, perfect passive participle of expatriō (“to banish”) (see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3)), from Latin ex- (“out of”) + patria (“native land”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); possibly after French expatrier and expatrié.

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