Question of the Day #848

Struggling to learn the language? The best expat countries in Europe for English speakers

From the headline of this article at Euronews.

  上記の文で、expatの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "expat" mean?

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解答

意味：
Expatは、expatriateの略で英辞郎によると名詞形の訳は、

1. 国外居住者、海外駐在者
2. 国籍離脱［放棄］者

動詞系や形容詞系にさらに多くの意味があるので、ぜひ上記のリンクで参照してください。

Answer

Expat is an abbreviation of expatriate and according to Merriam-Webster it means:

a person who lives in a foreign country

   

Examples

• A large community of expatriates has settled there.
• Art Deco is associated in particular with two expatriates living in Paris: Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.
• The city is now a tourist and expatriate destination. — Peter Canby, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• Qatar is renewing efforts to make real estate more attractive to expatriate residents, foreign investors and real estate funds. — Simone Foxman, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• Hemingway himself in The Sun Also Rises, 1926, had given the picture of the dislocated life of young English and American expatriates in the bars of Paris, the "lost generation," as Gertrude Stein defined them. — Robert Penn Warren

   

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