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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country;
- Example: "American expatriates"
[syn: exile, expatriate, expat]


VERB (2)

1. expel from a country;
- Example: "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"
[syn: expatriate, deport, exile]

2. move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

expatriate
    n 1: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country;
         "American expatriates" [syn: exile, expatriate,
         expat]
    v 1: expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he
         signed a letter protesting the government's actions" [syn:
         expatriate, deport, exile] [ant: repatriate]
    2: move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence
       abroad