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Refugee vs Expatriate - What's the difference?

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Refugee is a related term of expatriate.


As nouns the difference between refugee and expatriate

is that refugee is a person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, ie, a person seeking a political asylum while expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country.

As verbs the difference between refugee and expatriate

is that refugee is (transitive|us|historical) to convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces 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.

refugee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum.
  • A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum.
  • A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster.
  • A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country.

    • Derived terms

    * reffo * refugeehood

    See also

    * asylum * economic asylum * political asylum * refuge * refoulement * citizenshipless * countryless * nationless

    Verb

  • (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

    • expatriate

    English

    (wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * inpatriate * repatriate

    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.

    • Related terms

    * repatriate * patriate