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• n  a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
  American expatriates
• v  expel from a country
• v  move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

• The expatriates lived in a small section of the town busy with making both ends meet.
• Anne, the expatriate English author living in Italy, wrote murder mysteries set in rural England.
• Robert, the African expatriate, was so obsessed with his roots that he was scarcely aware of his British neighborhood.

• exile
• expat
• deport

• repatriate

News & Articles

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• William Demby, 90, author of experimental novels
  NEW YORK — William Demby, whose novels, written while he was an expatriate in Italy, challenged literary conventions and expectations of what a black writer should write about, died May 23 at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was 90.        
  June 11, 2013 - Boston Globe
• California Author Returns Home for Much Anticipated Book Tour
  European expatriate author Lee Foust returns home to California for a series of performances and book signings to publicize his new anthology of verse and prose Sojourner. (PRWeb June 06, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10800112.htm
  June 6, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Amitabh Bachchan in International Herald Tribune
  It feels good to be able to bring an entertainment quality that matches with anything else in the rest of the world and do it for basically an expatriate audience that misses this kind of entertainment,Amitabh Bachchan said in Toronto.
• Indra Nooyi in Sify
  Nooyi said of Nair: "She has, through her work, provided all of us immense joy. She has, through her excellence, captured the popular imagination, and thus built yet another important bridgehead between the [expatriate] community and the country."
• Joseph Boyden in Pulse 24
  I'm not an expatriate by any means...... I think our world is such right now that you can live in very distant places and still keep close to family and the land,said Boyden, 41. "I really like that kind of psychic and geographic distance...