expat
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈɛkspæt/
:
expatriado
- Living in Spain as an expat has given her a chance to learn the language and culture.
Now what kind of expats were Paul and Julia Child?
- Now what kind of expats were Paul and Julia Child?
- But at the time, China had like millions of expats and I mean millions really.
- Like I know, like kudos to expats who do it.
- And I remember standing on that, looking at it's like miles there, you know, in in Shanghai, only the expats speak English.
- When I lived in China, I spent all of my time with English expats because most Chinese people don't speak English and I didn't speak Chinese.
- And she can attest to this now that she is a European, yes, a euro, a euro, an expert, an expat.
Examples
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Rich British expat living in the Philippines.
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I also had a lot of support from fellow expats who were very concerned about birthing choices.
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Yeah, my father was an expat.
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So the experience that people will have is that it's not as lonely as it might be with being an expat in Japan.
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Glad to be an American expat working in Europe since '95 to the present.
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I have been traveling around the world and living as an expat for over twenty years.
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By the way, I was chatting with a guy at an expat bar the other night.
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Dear all, my name is Goffredo and I am an Italian expat living and working in Paris.
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But here's the thing being an expat has taught me: you can't get rid of your culture.
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Steve was typical of many expatriates living in a Far Eastern enclave consisting mostly of other expats.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
201
3.3
A person from another country who is not a citizen where they live
170
2.5
A person from a different country who is not a citizen
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6.2
A person who lives in a country that is not their own
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Morphology
Etymology
Expat is short for expatriate, from the parts ex- 'out of' and patria 'native land', the same root you see in patriot. So an expat is someone who lives 'out of' their home country, usually by choice.