noun
- A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country.
- usage: "American expatriates"
- synonyms: expatriate, expat
- A person who is expelled from home or country by authority.
- synonyms: deportee
- The act of expelling a person from their native land.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation
verb
- Expel from a country.
- usage: "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"
- synonyms: expatriate, deport
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