Inpatriate vs. Expatriate

Inpatriatenoun

(business) An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters

Inpatriateadjective

Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.

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.