Definition of "expatriate"

expatriate

/ɛksˈpætɹi.ɪt/

adjective
not comparable
1. Living outside of one's own country.
noun
plural expatriates
1. One who lives outside one's own country.
  1. One who has been banished from one's own country.
verb
third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriating, simple past and past participle expatriated
1. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
2. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
3. (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.