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expat

[ eks-peyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Informal.

expat

/ ˌɛksˈpæt /

Origin of expat¹

First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening

“Expat bankers are definitely into the drugs/hooker scene, and Wan Chai is the very epicenter,” he told The Daily Beast.

Two decades on from his masterpiece on anti-Americanism abroad, Whit Stillman remains obsessed with native-expat dynamics.

In most African expat communities, everyone knows or has heard of each other.

Whispers of their supposed affair were a common among the expat set.

Many have taken jobs and some have even integrated into the expat social circles in Rome and Milan.

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