Inpatriate vs. Expatriate

Inpatriate vs. Expatriate — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Inpatriate and Expatriate

Inpatriatenoun

(business) An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters

Expatriateverb

To send into exile

They were expatriated because of their political beliefs.

Inpatriateadjective

Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.

Expatriateverb

To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.

Expatriateverb

To give up residence in one's homeland.

Expatriateverb

To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.

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Expatriatenoun

One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.

Expatriatenoun

One who has renounced one's native land.

Expatriateadjective

Residing in a foreign country; expatriated

"She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome" (Janet H. Murray).

Expatriateadjective

Living outside of one's own country.

an expatriate rebel force

Expatriatenoun

One who lives outside their own country.

Expatriatenoun

One who has been banished from their own country.

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Expatriateverb

(transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expatriateverb

(intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.

Expatriateverb

(intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Expatriatenoun

voluntarily absent from home or country

Expatriateverb

expel from a country;

The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions

Expatriateverb

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