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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He first taste of competition in the Gulf was against expat teams in Dubai.
▪ I was writing a comedy with sinister undertones about the villa renters and expats of Chiantishire.
▪ Most agencies tell their single volunteers it is inadvisable to form relationships with locals or other expats.
▪ Some have gone to expats, causing a property boom and a total drought of flats for rent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expat

1962, shortening of expatriate (n.).

Wiktionary
expat

n. An expatriate; a person who lives outside his or her own country.

Wikipedia
Expat

Expat may refer to:

  • A shortened version of the term expatriate
  • Expat (library), a stream-oriented XML parser
    • Expat License, a free software license used for the XML parser, sometimes known as MIT License
Expat (library)

In computing, Expat is a stream-oriented XML 1.0 parser library, written in C. As one of the first available open-source XML parsers, Expat has found a place in many open-source projects. Such projects include the Apache HTTP Server, Mozilla, Perl, Python and PHP. It is also bound in many other languages.

Usage examples of "expat".

But we were in Lockhart Road, Wanchai, with what felt like the rest of the expat population.

Outside an expat bar called the Fruity Ferret we saw a man in a rain-sodden tuxedo being head butted by a youth in a torn soccer shirt.

Leave behind the expat, extramarital, almost-incestuous affairs bred from heat and boredom and drink.

The action planned by the militant expat No-Borders to open the borders.

For the next couple of minutes he gabbled out something of his life storyhow he was the son of a diplomat, a student at an expat school in the cityand how his harmless flirtation with a pretty girl he spotted at the Pantheon had led him into deep waters.

So did the other kind of expats who were out on Lantau, building the new airport.

His family are expats, Jews from Cuba who arrived there in the seventeenth century.

The expats, therefore, were a potential target of the Khmer Rouge, which, as the torture-murder of the three Western backpackers had made clear (not to mention the periodic kidnapping and murder of scores of Cambodian villagers), had an undiminished appetite for cruelty.

Cambodia in 1994 had as many as ninety NGOs operating around the country, staffed by as many as one thousand expats, including Americans.

With a population of under 10 million, Cambodia may have had more resident expats and NGOs per capita than any other third world country.

Manny’s bar was the unofficial information clearinghouse for the expat and NGO community in Cambodia, the place where expats returning from the countryside fortified themselves with steaks and beer while trading war stories.

The more the expats accomplished, the more popular they became among the villagers.

Rick, another young American in Kratie, was a geologist who came to Cambodia after three years of Peace Corps experience in a village in Mali, one of the hardest and loneliest countries in West Africa for expats to work in.

The ice factory also distributed electricity at a reasonable price to nearby houses, where some of the expats lived.

They all stay at the same hotel and tend to spend their off hours at Papa Doc's (no relation to the Haitian dictator), a beachfront bar run by expats (British) for expats (Australians, Americans, Brits, you name it).