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I didn't check any dictionary definitions - that's why I put "(incorrect?)" in my opening sentence, Steve.

I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, just that in my perception an Expat is temporary, and the relocation is primarily related to work and is paid for by an employer.

Conversely, an Emigrant chooses to permanently live in another country and perhaps take citizenship.

Is an Expat and and Emigrant the same thing?
Does an Emigrant ever stop being an Emigrant, and become an Immigrant or a Citizen instead?
Can one simultaneously be a Citizen of Country A, an Emigrant, an Expatriate, an Immigrant and a Citizen of Country B?? (Sounds like a recipe for a large tax bill :lol:)

I don't know, MMC just got me wondering, that's all. :rofl:

Re: Immigrate or Emigrate
 

I think expat. can be either, whereas emigrating is more permanent. I dont think "expating" is a solely temporary thing, it denotes that someone is living in a country other than their own. So the British part of "British Expats" says where the people came from.

I suppose if you extrapolate this, then once you adopt a new country you are at home and so no longer an expat?? Perhaps this is why Jings thinks of himself as an expat rather than an emigrant?

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lol cheers!

My perception on the xpat thing is if you take the opposite ie re-patriate that means to restore to the country of origin /birth.

So the word expatriate would by definition mean a person who is no longer at their place of birth or origin.

Re: Immigrate or Emigrate
 

Well, perhaps "-patriate" refers to a fatherland, or rather one's home, or home country.

If someone becomes a citizen of a new country, or even has permanent residence there, then surely that become their "home country"?

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Expatriate .......someone who chooses to live in a country not of his/her birth...........So does that make me a re-patriate twice over:lol: I knew their was a name for it , other then a ping -ponging -pom :eek:

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Are but not their Birth Country............:p

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Now you're not confused am I? :confused:

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Yes that is also a possibility although the words birth / origin came straight from the dictionary and i would take origin to mean right at the very beginning - where it all began!!!!!

It also can mean the point at which something came into existence. You could argue that if you were unhappy in England you came into existence spiritually (sorry Bazzz) when you moved to Canada.

This is the "problem" with words. Everyone can rework a word or a sentence so in effect it is easy to justify anything meaning anything

Re: Immigrate or Emigrate
 

i said that.....

wearing invisible woman cloak again....

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No you're not hun :wub:

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Extrapolate? Is that the immigrant Polish builders in the UK? :rofl:

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Extra polate.

one more polate than one really needs.;):rofl::rofl::rofl:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=polate

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So...I will show my age. Emigrate (to leave one's home country for another) must come from the Latin ēmigrāre.....kind of self explanatory...no?:confused:

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.............my head hurts.............

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Here, have a drink :beer: we can just sit on the side and listen.