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Definition of expatriation:
- The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.
Synonyms:
fare, transport, deportation, displacement, transferral, reward, exile, expat, deportee, transportation system, accept, expatriate, shipping, conveyance, expulsion, out-migration, emigration, transportation, transit, transfer.
- exclusion (part of speech: noun)
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seclusion (part of speech: noun)
- anonymity,
- detachment,
- deportation,
- extirpation,
- apartheid,
- aloneness,
- eradication,
- xenophobia,
- extradition,
- excommunication,
- loneliness,
- solitude,
- confinement,
- exclusion,
- banishment,
- disbarment,
- removal,
- exile,
- rejection,
- captivity,
- ostracism,
- alienation,
- isolation,
- reclusion,
- segregation,
- standoffishness,
- separation,
- aloofness,
- misanthropy,
- seclusion,
- ejection,
- elimination
Usage examples:
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After that the second fall of the Empire and the proposed expatriation acted on her feelings like a renewed attack of the same fever.
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Barlow casting about for the wherefore of his madness, discovered the moonlight, and heard the soft night- air whispering through the harp chords of trees that threw a tracery of black lines across the white road; and from a grove of mango trees came the gentle scent of their blossoms; and he remembered that statistics had it that there was but one memsahib to so many square miles in that land of expatriation; and he knew that he was young and full of the joy of life; that a British soldier was not like a man of Hind who looked upon women as cattle.
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I invite the earnest attention of Congress to the existing laws of the United States respecting expatriation and the election of nationality by individuals.