Expatriate vs. Immigrant

Expatriateadjective

Living outside of one's own country.

Expatriatenoun

One who lives outside their own country.

Expatriatenoun

One who has been banished from their own country.

Expatriateverb

(transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expatriateverb

(intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.

Expatriateverb

(intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Expatriateverb

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expatriateverb

Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.

Expatriatenoun

voluntarily absent from home or country

Expatriateverb

expel from a country;

Expatriateverb

move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

Expatriate

An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person residing in a country other than their native country. In common usage, the term often refers to professionals, skilled workers, or artists taking positions outside their home country, either independently or sent abroad by their employers.

Immigrantadjective

Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

Immigrantnoun

A non-native person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there.

Immigrantnoun

A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

Immigrantnoun

One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; - correlative of emigrant.

Immigrantnoun

a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

Immigrantnoun

a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country