Definition of "patriate" []

• To assume control of a governmental power from a former mother country. (verb)

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• "This picture was sent to me by Bill Godwin-Toby, an ex-patriate Canadian working in Austria."
• "Q.E.D., she chose not to, thus preserving a kind of privacy for herself that was reinforced by her life as an ex-patriate."
• "And, depending on the next couple of election cycles, I may move to Europe and become another ex-patriate nutter on the dole."