The difference between Emigrant and Expatriate
When used as nouns, emigrant means someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country, whereas expatriate means one who has been banished from their own country.
Expatriate is also verb with the meaning: to banish.
Expatriate is also adjective with the meaning: living outside of one's own country.
check bellow for the other definitions of Emigrant and Expatriate
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Emigrant as a noun:
Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
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Expatriate as an adjective:
Living outside of one's own country.
Examples:
"an expatriate rebel force"
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Expatriate as a noun:
One who lives outside their own country. One who has been banished from their own country.
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Expatriate as a verb (transitive):
To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
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Expatriate as a verb (intransitive):
To withdraw from one's native country.
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Expatriate as a verb (intransitive):
To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.