The difference between Expatriate and Émigré
When used as nouns, expatriate means one who has been banished from their own country, whereas émigré means a french person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the french revolution.
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 Expatriate and Émigré
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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.
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Émigré as a noun:
A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
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Émigré as a noun:
An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.