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Definitions: Expatriate |
ExpatriateNoun1. Voluntarily absent from home or country. Verb1. Expel from a country. 2. Move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "expatriate" was first used: 1768. (references) |
Note: Expatriate \Ex*pa"tri*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Expatriated; present participle verb or noun Expatriating.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Finance | A person who has left his country of origin and lives abroad, often granted concessional tax treatment in the country of residence. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ExpatriateSynonyms: deport (v), exile (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: repatriate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Seclusion Exclusion | Cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Expatriate |
| English words defined with "expatriate": Expatriated, Expatriating ♦ Gertrude Stein ♦ stein. (references) |
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Business | The largest expenses are rent for office space and housing, and expatriate salaries and benefits. (references) | |
Also, some mid-level expatriate managers coming from Asian/Arab countries similarly have coverage. (references) | ||
Most private hospitals and clinics are set up as commercial ventures by local or expatriate Pakistani doctors. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints meets regularly in a number of cities, but its membership is strictly limited to the expatriate community. (references) |
India | On December 31, RSS chief K. Sudarshan addressed a meeting of volunteers of the Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (a global organization of expatriate Hindus) in a suburb of Mumbai. (references) | |
Cambodia | In June the Government forbade a private conference on border issues planned by a student group in conjunction with an organization of expatriate Cambodians at a Phnom Penh hotel. (references) | |
Economic History | Malaysia | Any expatriate on staff requires a work permit. (references) |
Qatar | All expatriate labor must have a Qatari sponsor. (references) | |
Malaysia | Appendix D lists guidelines for expatriate employment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Seychelles | Some observers criticized expatriate judges for a perceived lack of sensitivity on issues such as human rights. (references) |
Cameroon | In June police shot and killed Aliou Oumarou, a suspect in the May 28 murder of a French expatriate in a Yaounde pharmacy. (references) | |
Haiti | Based on recent turmoil, the ICRC has decided to postpone plans to reduce its operations and to delay the departure of some expatriate employees. (references) | |
Minorities | Angola | In addition approximately 30,000 Portuguese citizens live in the country, forming the bulk of the nonrefugee expatriate community. (references) |
Political Economy | Nigeria | Kidnappings of Nigerian and expatriate oil service workers for mostly mercenary reasons continued. (references) |
MALAYSIA | Most foreign firms face restrictions in the number of expatriate workers they are allowed to employ. (references) | |
Trade | Ireland | Duties and taxes are levied on the increased value added by the expatriate manufacturing or processing when the goods are returned to Ireland, not upon the total value of the product. (references) |
Syria | Registered Syrian and resident expatriate merchants and industrialists must obtain an import license issued by the local directorate of Economy and Foreign Trade for permitted products. (references) | |
Laos | THE FOREIGN BRANCHES, WHICH ARE NOT INCORPORATED IN LAOS, GENERALLY SERVE ONLY FOREIGN OR EXPATRIATE CUSTOMERS (PRIMARILY THAI BUSINESSES OPERATING IN LAOS), AND DO FEW, IF ANY, KIP-DENOMINATED OPERATIONS. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Presently, there is a shortage of expatriate housing. (references) |
Costa Rica | Suitable expatriate housing is becoming more expensive. (references) | |
Qatar | Prior to undergoing surgery, a resident expatriate patient is requested to donate blood. (references) | |
Women | Gabon | Female genital mutilation (FGM), which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health, occurred among the resident population of expatriate Africans. (references) |
Worker Rights | Maldives | The work force consists of between 70,000 and 75,000 persons, including expatriate labor and seasonal and part-time workers. (references) |
Kuwait | The KTUF administers an Expatriate Labor Office, which is authorized to investigate complaints of foreign laborers and provide them with free legal advice. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Expatriate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.09% of the time. "Expatriate" is used about 177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.09% | 163 | 24,498 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.78% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 177 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "expatriate": expatriate oneself. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "expatriate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | emigrant (emigrant), i mërguar, i larguar nga vendi, dëboj nga atdheu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منفي (denied, disowned), مغترب, هجر وطنه, نفى (banish, be exiled, deny, disclaim, exile, gainsay, proscribe, relegate, transport), المنفى (exile, expatriation), إغترب (exile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | експатриран, експатрирам, имигрант (immigrant, incomer), изгонвам от родината, изгонен от родината, изгнаник (exile, outcast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 移居国外 (Expatriated, Expatriating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vypovìdìt z vlasti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skattemæssig udlænding. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | in het buitenland wonende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | expatrié (exile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausbürgern (denaturalize, to denaturalize, to expatriate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκπατρισμένοσ, εκπατρίζω, εξορίζω (banish, deport, exile, relegate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ ותק ממול"תו. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kivándorol (emigrate, to emigrate, to expatriate oneself, to hive off, to migrate, transmigrate), külföldi (alien, alien friend, external, foreign, foreigner, monitor, offshore, oversea, overseas, peregrine, stranger, to depend on foreign supplies), külföldön élõ, hazájából számûz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | espatriato, espatriare (emigrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "방되". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eebyrtagh (banished person, deportee, exile, outcast, rogue), eebyrt (banish, drive out, exile, expulsion, get rid of, send down, transport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | eksil (exile), landsforvise. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | expatriateay expatriar, expatriado, estrangeiro residente (alien resident), dissertar (descant, discourteous), banir (ban, banish, cast out, deport, do away with, exile, get rid of, ostracize, outlawry, proscription, relegate, remove, rusticate, sequester, taboo). (various references) expatria (banish). (various references) эмигрантский, эмигрант (йmigrй, emigrant, emigre, expat, refugee, remittance-man), изгонять из отечества. (various references) proterati (banish, banishment, deport, expel, relegate), proteran, iseljenik (emigrant). (various references) expatriar, expatriado (exiled). (various references) landsförvisa (banish, exile). (various references) เกี่ยวกับคนที่อาศัยอยู่ต่างประเทศ. (various references) yabancı ülkede yaşayan kimse, yabancı ülkede yaşayan, sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expel, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), sürgün etmek (banish, deport, exile, expel, ostracize, relegate), sürgün edilmiş kimse, sürgün edilmiş, gurbetçi. (various references) експатріант, емігрант (emigrant, exile), позбавляти громадянства. (various references) người bị đ y biệt xứ, người bỏ xứ sở m đi, bị đ y biệt xứ; bỏ xứ sở m đi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | patria. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | expatrier. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "expatriate": expatriated, expatriates. (additional references) | |
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"Expatriate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exaptriate, expatraite, expatriare, expatriat, expatriatte, expatriots, expatrite, expertext. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "expatriate" (pronounced ekspā"trēā't or ekspā"trēut) |
| 7 | -p ā" t r ē ā' t | repatriate. |
| 4 | -r ē ā' t | excoriate, expropriate, infuriate, misappropriate, recreate. |
| 3 | -ē ā' t | abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, expiate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, renegotiate, renunciate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate. |
| 7 | -p ā" t r ē u t | compatriot, patriot. |
| 4 | -r ē u t | appropriate, baccalaureate, chariot, inappropriate, lariat, laureate, proletariat, secretariat. |
| 3 | -ē u t | associate, Cheviot, idiot, immediate, intermediate, opiate, remediate, soviet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-t-t-x" | |
-1 letter: expatiate, extirpate. | |
-3 letters: apatite, apteria, arietta, ariette, expiate, iterate, partita, partite, peatier, pettier, pretext. | |
-4 letters: aerate, attire, expert, expire, pattee, patter, pattie, pereia, petite, petter, pirate, pretax, ratite, repeat, retape, tapeta, taxite. | |
-5 letters: aerie, apart, apter, areae, arete, atria, atrip, attar, axite, eater, etape, exert, expat, extra, irate, parae, pater, peart, perea, peter, petit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-t-t-x" | |
+1 letter: expatriated, expatriates. | |
+2 letters: extrahepatic. | |
+3 letters: extrapolative. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 70 61 74 72 69 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- .--. .- - .-. .. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01110000 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x p a t r i a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0070 0061 0074 0072 0069 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39908267868475678671 |
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