expatriate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
    exile; expat.
    • American expatriates
  2. verb expel from a country
    exile; deport.
    • The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions
  3. verb move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

WordNet

Ex*pa"tri*ate transitive verb
Etymology
LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Expatriated ; present participle & verbal noun Expatriating
Definitions
  1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
    The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.
  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.

Webster 1913