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Emigration vs Expatriate - What's the difference?

emigration | expatriate |

As nouns the difference between emigration and expatriate

is that emigration is emigration while expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country.

As an adjective expatriate is

of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.

As a verb expatriate is

to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

emigration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
  • A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

    • Related terms

    * migration * migrate * migratory * emigrate * , emigre * immigrate * immigration

    See also

    * ("emigration" on Wikipedia) ----

    expatriate

    English

    (wikipedia expatriate)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
  • * an expatriate mailing list

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives outside one’s own country.
  • One who has been banished from one’s own country.

    • Synonyms

    * * outland

    Derived terms

    * expat * rex-pat, rex-patriate

    Related terms

    * inpatriate * repatriate

    See also

    * immigrant * emigrant

    Verb

    (expatriat)
  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  • To withdraw from one’s native country.
  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

    • Related terms

    * repatriate * patriate