expatriate

Noun · Verb

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country“American expatriates”Synonyms: exile expat

Verb (2)

expel from a country“The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions”Synonyms: deport exile
move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Expatriate \Ex*pa"tri*ate\, 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. [1913 Webster]

The expatriated landed interest of France.— Burke.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]