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Fugitive vs Expatriate - What's the difference?

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Fugitive is a synonym of expatriate.


As nouns the difference between fugitive and expatriate

is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country.

As adjectives the difference between fugitive and expatriate

is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while 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.

fugitive

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain
  • 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

    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.