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Secondment vs Expatriate - What's the difference?

secondment | expatriate |

As nouns the difference between secondment and expatriate

is that secondment is the process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment while expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country.

As an adjective 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.

secondment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment

    • Anagrams

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    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