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Definition of Expat
1. Noun. A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country. "American expatriates"
Generic synonyms: Absentee
Specialized synonyms: Refugee, Remittance Man
Language type: Britain
Derivative terms: Expatriate
Definition of Expat
1. Noun. An expatriate; a person who lives outside his or her own country. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expat
1. an expatriate person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expat
Literary usage of Expat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy (2003)
"expat is an open source XML 1.0 parser written in C. It implements SAX, the Simple
API for ... Although expat handles more than a dozen different events, ..."
2. Regulatory Reform in Denmark by Oecd (2000)
"expat-Survey '98 sponsored in part by ... by the expat-Survey '98 mentioned above
in terms of competitiveness of location for expatriation. 3. ..."
3. Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant by Thomas Dallam, John Covel, James Theodore Bent (1893)
"The host, before it is consecrated, is brought through the body of the Church,
at which all the Patr., expat., Papa., etc., uncover their heads (and come ..."
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