2006-10-26 15:54:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Short for expatriate, means someone who is living and working outside their nation of which they are a citizen.
2006-10-26 15:55:46 · answer #1 · answered by spongeworthy_us 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An Expat is not just someone who is living and working in a nation other than their own. It is someone who has relinquished their nationality of birth and all rights & privileges associated thereof to take up residence in another country as a citizen of that country. If you hear someone actually refer to themselves as an Expat, there is a good chance they have a strong distaste for their country of birth. -- An expat is not away from their native country temporarily. They have given up their original citizenship, which is why they are EX-patriates. In older days, it was also used to identify those that were thrown out of their own countries.
2006-10-27 03:54:36 · answer #2 · answered by nativeAZ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The word comes from the Latin "patria", meaning native land. It is applied to a person who has left his or her native land to live elsewhere, either temporarily or permanently. It is not a modern word, being used in the New Testament for the diaspora, that is, the Jews who had been scattered about the Mediterranean countries as exiles. The full word is "expatriate", expat being a shortened form.
2006-10-27 06:07:56 · answer #3 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's short for expatriate. It's someone who lives and works in a country other than their native one.
2006-10-26 22:56:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A person living and working in any country other than their own.
2006-10-27 11:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by Richard T 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's short for expatriate. Someone who has left their country of origin.
2006-10-26 23:07:56 · answer #6 · answered by red ferrari 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
someone living outside ones native country
2006-10-30 13:09:17 · answer #7 · answered by bobonumpty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
expatriate, a person who has left the nation of his birth, and settled in another, but still retains ties to his nation or origin, not totally integrating in his host nation.
Let me see how what I just wrote differs from a dictionary definition:
American Heritage includes several meanings, or shades of meanings, at least one of which is synonymous with exile:
ex·pa·tri·ate (Äk-spÄ'trÄ-Ät') pronunciation
v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.
v.tr.
1. To send into exile. See synonyms at banish.
2. To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
v.intr.
1. To give up residence in one's homeland.
2. To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.
n. (-Ät, -Ät')
1. One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.
2. One who has renounced one's native land.
adj. (-Ät, -Ät')
Residing in a foreign country; expatriated: “She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome” (Janet H. Murray).
[Medieval Latin expatriÄre, expatriÄt- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin patria, native land (from patrius, paternal, from pater, father).]
expatriation ex·pa'tri·a'tion n.
2006-10-26 22:59:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A person or persons who have moved to Spain to live from England.
2006-10-27 01:54:45 · answer #9 · answered by animalwatch 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
somebody who is living and workiing in another country to thier own
2006-10-26 22:55:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋