expatriates

Meaning of expatriates

plural noun
  1. a person who lives outside their native country.
    American expatriates in London
verb, 3rd person present
  1. send (a person or money) abroad.
    we expatriated the prisoners of war immediately after the end of the war
    people that have illegally expatriated funds
    money found to have been expatriated to Singapore banks
    the poet was then expatriated from France
    candidates should be willing to expatriate

mid 18th century (as a verb): from medieval Latin expatriat- ‘gone out from one's country’, from the verb expatriare, from ex- ‘out’ + patria ‘native country’.

Information about expatriates

  • The singular form of expatriates is: expatriate.
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Hyphenation of expatriates

ex-pa-tri-ates

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • expatriates is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

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