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expellee

American  
[ek-spe-lee, -spuh-, ik-spel-ee] / ˌɛk spɛˈli, -spə-, ɪkˈspɛl i /

noun

  1. a person who has been expelled, especially one deported from a native or adopted country and resettled in another.


Etymology

Origin of expellee

First recorded in 1885–90; expel + -ee

Example Sentences

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“While a serial prep-school expellee, he became a serious reader of 19th-century novels,” he wrote of Mr. Penske.

From New York Times

The expellee Evangelical Bishop of Schleswig-Holstein resigned in protest; the Socialist chairman of the Expellees' Federation cried out against the offense to Heimatsrecht.

From Time Magazine Archive