Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing?

Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Immigrant would be someone coming to your country, emigrant is someone leaving your country. So an expat would be an emigrant if anything. I’ve always assumed that it’s short for ex-patriot, since they left their country to go live in another one.

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