Expatriate vs. Repatriate — What's the Difference?

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.

To restore or return to the country of birth, citizenship, or origin

To send into exile

One who has been repatriated.

To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.

A person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.

To give up residence in one's homeland.

(transitive) To restore (a person) to their own country.

To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.

(transitive) To return (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.

One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.

(transitive) To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

One who has renounced one's native land.

To restore to one's own country.

Residing in a foreign country; expatriated

A person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored

Living outside of one's own country.

Send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees

One who lives outside one's own country.

Admit back into the country

One who has been banished from one's own country.

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

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

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

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

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.

Voluntarily absent from home or country

Expel from a country;

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