act of banishing a person from his native country; banishment, exile
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Expatriation Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThe act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.
expatriation
\ex*pa`tri*a"tion\ (?), n. [cf. f. expatriation.] the act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls.
Noun
1. the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
(synonym) exile, deportation, transportation
(hypernym) banishment, proscription
(hyponym) Babylonian Captivity
(derivation) expatriate, deport, exile
2. migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
(synonym) emigration, out-migration
(hypernym) migration
(derivation) expatriate
Expatriation Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
The removal of legal residence or citizenship from one country to another in anticipation of future restrictions on capital movements or to avoid estate taxes.
Copyright © 2005 UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.Expatriation Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing. The word comes from the Latin terms ("out of") and ("country, fatherland").
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