expatriation

¹ Cultural  

1. Voluntary departure from the nation of one's birth for permanent or prolonged residence in another nation.

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expatriation ² Cultural  

1. Voluntarily leaving the nation of one's birth for permanent or prolonged residence in another country.

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Explanation

Expatriation is the process of leaving your country and living in a new one, or the act of forcing a person to do this. If you decide to pack up your things and move to the remote island nation of Kiribati, that's expatriation. When a fairy tale king banishes a princess from the kingdom, it's one kind of expatriation—you could also call it "exile" or "deportation." Then there's the expatriation that happens when someone chooses to move from one country to another. A U.S. citizen might attend college in Canada, then stay and become a Canadian citizen afterward, for example. Expatriation comes from the French expatrier, "banish," from ex-, "out of," and the Latin patria, "native land."

Example Sentences

Pelak and Reed are a few of the more than 1,000 volunteers on a Slack group called AFG Expatriation, many of whom served on combat deployments and humanitarian relief missions.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2021

Expatriation is the legal process by which a loss of citizenship occurs.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

In 2010, when he was a senator from Massachusetts, Brown co-sponsored the Terrorist Expatriation Act with former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 4, 2014

Expatriation involves an exit interview with a U.S. official, usually abroad—although not always in the host country.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2012

Its report, known as House Document 326, 59th Congress, 2d Session, and entitled "Citizenship of the United States, Expatriation, and Protection Abroad," was the basis of the Act of 1906.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.