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Princeton's WordNet

  1. exile, expatriate, expatnoun

    a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

    "American expatriates"

Wiktionary

  1. expatnoun

    An expatriate; a person who lives outside his or her own country.

  2. Etymology: Apocope of expatriate.

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  1. expat

    An expat, short for expatriate, is a person who has chosen to live in a country other than the one they were born and brought up in. It refers to those who have moved abroad for work-related reasons or other factors such as a better quality of life, climate, or cultural interest.

Wikidata

  1. Expat

    In computing, Expat is a stream-oriented XML 1.0 parser library, written in C. As one of the first available open-source XML parsers, Expat has found a place in many open-source projects. Such projects include the Apache HTTP Server, Mozilla, Perl, Python and PHP. It is also bound in many other languages.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of expat in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of expat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of expat in a Sentence

  1. Dean Ferraro:

    I helped my expat client save $3,000 using one federal tax form, most expats don't realize that they can qualify for the home office deduction.

  2. David Feldsott:

    The mistakes I made, coupled with the complications of being an expat, is making me use an accountant, i think people are running a big risk by not using an expert.

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