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expatriate

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1. expatriate - Noun

2. expatriate - Adjective

3. expatriate - Verb

Meaning

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

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see You hang around cafTs. Ernest Hemingway

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight. Chang-rae Lee

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place. Bharati Mukherjee

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate. James Hillman

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

American expatriates Source: Internet

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