Explore Expatriate through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like exile or absentee. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Expatriate meaning
Living outside of one's own country.
Expatriate vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Expatriate
- The main meaning on this page is: Living outside of one's own country.
- Useful related words include: exile, absentee, deport, expel.
- Possible Dutch translations are: banneling.
- In the example corpus, expatriate often appears in combinations such as: expatriate workers, the expatriate, an expatriate.
Context around Expatriate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Expatriate
- In this selection, "expatriate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, irish, egyptian, workers, employment and retired stand out and add context to how "expatriate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abduct an expatriate involved in and aging russian expatriate named olga. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "expatriate" sits close to words such as admiring, aerosol and balmoral, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with expatriate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In 1995, expatriate financier James Goldsmith set up the Referendum Party. (11 words)
Every so often an event happens in Switzerland that stuns an American expatriate. (13 words)
They don’t comply, some even engage in racketeering of the expatriate quota. (13 words)
At a hotel bar, Sharon meets an expatriate retired philosophy professor (Hugh Quarshie), and just as she tapped her inner freak in “Book Club” by having sex in the back of her car, here the two go at it in the back of a water taxi. (46 words)
On the lighter side, Tom Berkeley and Ross White’s is almost too obvious in its gentle tale of an Irish expatriate to London (Seamus O’Hara) and his special-needs younger brother (James Martin) bonding after the death of their mother. (42 words)
Papua New Guinea citizens who are appointed as judges serve for 10 years, while expatriate judges serve for three years, but as the Attorney General rightly stated in his media release, some of these judges are now nearing their compulsory retirement age. (42 words)
Would you be more comfortable retiring to an established expatriate community, a place where you’ll have no trouble slipping into the local social scene and finding English speakers who share your interests? (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
At a hotel bar, Sharon meets an expatriate retired philosophy professor (Hugh Quarshie), and just as she tapped her inner freak in “Book Club” by having sex in the back of her car, here the two go at it in the back of a water taxi.
Every so often an event happens in Switzerland that stuns an American expatriate.
In addition, it has been the experience of the authors that more often than not, expatriate clients have complained about police officers coming up with scrupulous and scandalous petitions with the singular aim of extorting money from them.
On the lighter side, Tom Berkeley and Ross White’s is almost too obvious in its gentle tale of an Irish expatriate to London (Seamus O’Hara) and his special-needs younger brother (James Martin) bonding after the death of their mother.
Pakistan has great potential to attract a huge number of foreign tourists and expatriate Pakistanis to explore and witness the country’s culture, ecotourism and Sikh heritage.
They don’t comply, some even engage in racketeering of the expatriate quota.
Abdelatty, 58, took charge of two merged ministries: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Emigration and Egyptian Expatriate’s Affairs.
Bryan argued that if it were not so easy to recruit expatriate workers, then employers would have to find, hire, train and promote local people.
By tapping into the resources generated from expatriate employment, the government can alleviate fiscal pressures and invest in programmes that benefit the entire population.
Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested 10 suspected kidnappers who were said to be planning to abduct an expatriate involved in the construction work along Calabar-Itu Highway in the state.
Papua New Guinea citizens who are appointed as judges serve for 10 years, while expatriate judges serve for three years, but as the Attorney General rightly stated in his media release, some of these judges are now nearing their compulsory retirement age.
Rathore welcomed the expatriate by stating, "You are always welcome in your home, and when you return, it's a festival.
Sports minister John Enoh has challenged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to appoint a world clash expatriate for the Super Eagles.
The imposition of the expatriate employment levy ensures that companies employing expatriates bear an appropriate share of the costs associated with hiring foreign workers in spite of the EEL.
Would you be more comfortable retiring to an established expatriate community, a place where you’ll have no trouble slipping into the local social scene and finding English speakers who share your interests?
You’d sell any other property you could and expatriate the proceeds to the safest jurisdiction you could find that’s relatively near you.
And I would also say that many of the expatriate police officers are displaying some serious negative attitude towards the local population.
Desperate to obtain legal residency, Olivia works as a caregiver to an aging Russian expatriate named Olga (Lynn Cohen).
He also called for speeding up the process of sending home thousands of expatriate workers living illegally in the country or those who are stranded here with no jobs.
In 1995, expatriate financier James Goldsmith set up the Referendum Party.
Common combinations with expatriate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- expatriate workers 13×
- the expatriate 11×
- an expatriate 9×
- expatriate community 8×
- of expatriate 8×
- and expatriate 6×
- expatriate communities 5×
- from expatriate 4×
- american expatriate 3×
- expatriate and 3×