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Inpatriate vs Expatriate - What's the difference?

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Expatriate is a related term of inpatriate.



As nouns the difference between inpatriate and expatriate

is that inpatriate is an employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters while expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country.

As adjectives the difference between inpatriate and expatriate

is that inpatriate is of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation 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.

inpatriate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (business) An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters.
  • Usage notes

    The term was probably meant to indicate the direction of the transfer, but has added a level of confusion to the definition of individuals working outside of their home country. Inpatriates'', like all other types of expatriates, are not in but outside of their country of origin. Etymologically, if the term was meant to be antonymic to expatriate (to indicate the direction of the transfer), it would have to be impatriate (just as import is antonymic to export). The only difference within the broader definition of expatriation is that an expatriate is transferred from the corporation headquarters to a country where the corporation has a subsidiary, while an ''inpatriate is transferred from the foreign subsidiary to the country where the corporation has its headquarters.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.
  • 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.