Expatriate vs Immigrants - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between expatriate and immigrants

is that expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country while immigrants is plural of immigrant.

is of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.

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

(wikipedia expatriate)

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Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.

* an expatriate mailing list

(en noun)

One who lives outside one’s own country.

One who has been banished from one’s own country.

* * outland

* expat * rex-pat, rex-patriate

(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.