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Overseas worker, perhaps
Answer for the clue "Overseas worker, perhaps ", 5 letters:
expat
Alternative clues for the word expat
- Hemingway, once
- Henry James, for much of his life
- American in Paris, for short
- One in an ethnic enclave, perhaps
- Certain absentee voter, for short
- Many a Graham Greene protagonist, briefly
- An exiled Yank, perhaps
- Greek in Rome, maybe
- One who’s emigrated with retired TV postman
- An Englishman in France, perhaps unknown during record comeback
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).