An expatriate (aften shortened tae expat) is a body temporarily or permanently residin, as an immigrant, in a kintra ither than that o their ceetizenship. The wird comes frae the Laitin terms ex ("oot o") an patria ("kintra, faitherland").

Expatriate French voters queue in Lausanne, Swisserland for the first roond o the presidential election o 2007

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