Definition of "expatriate" in English

adjective

1. Living outside of one's own country.

   • an expatriate rebel force

noun

1. One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.

2. One who has been banished from one's own country.

verb

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.