Migrate vs Expatriate - What's the difference?
migrate | expatriate |
To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.
* Twice a year the geese migrate — from Florida to Canada and back again.
* Twice a year the Minnesotans migrate from their state to the Gulf of Mexico.
To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.
To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.
* To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.
To move slowly towards, usually in groups.
* Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.
(computing): To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
* They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.
(marketing) To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.
Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
* an expatriate mailing list
One who lives outside one’s own country.
One who has been banished from one’s own country.
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between migrate and expatriate
is that migrate is to move slowly towards, usually in groups while expatriate is to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.As verbs the difference between migrate and expatriate
is that migrate is to relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons while expatriate is to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.As an adjective expatriate is
of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.As a noun expatriate is
one who lives outside one’s own country.migrate
English
Verb
(migrat)- Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.
- We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.