expatriate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: expatriate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for expatriate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expatriate n a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates" Synonym(s): exile, expatriate, expat v expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions" Synonym(s): expatriate, deport, exile Antonym(s): repatriate move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expatriate \Expa"triate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expatriated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Expatriating}.] [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See {Patriot}.] 1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. --Burke. 2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.