Inpatriate vs Null - What's the difference?
inpatriate | null |
(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.
Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between inpatriate and null
is that inpatriate is (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 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective inpatriate
is of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.inpatriate
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Noun
(en noun)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
(-)null
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.