Expatriate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.


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              The expatriated landed interest of France. --Burke.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "expatriate":
     DP, Ishmael, abstract, ban, banish, blackball, cast off, cast out,
     castaway, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks,
     cut, cut out, declasse, deport, derelict, disfellowship, displace,
     displaced person, dispose of, eject, elide, eliminate, emigrant,
     emigrate, emigre, eradicate, evacue, evacuee, evictee, exclude,
     excommunicate, exile, expel, expellee, extradite, flit, fugitate,
     get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, go from home, immigrant,
     immigrate, in-migrant, in-migrate, intermigrate, lag, leave home,
     leave the country, leper, liquidate, migrant, migrate, migrator,
     migratory worker, ostracize, oust, out-migrant, out-migrate,
     outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, pariah,
     persona non grata, pick out, proscribe, purge, relegate, remigrate,
     remove, root out, root up, run, rusticate, send away, send down,
     send to Coventry, snub, social outcast, spurn, stateless person,
     strike off, strike out, swarm, take wing, throw over,
     throw overboard, thrust out, transmigrate, transport, trek,
     trekker, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable, weed out,
     wetback