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American Heritage Dictionary (5 definitions)
- Enforced removal from one's native country.
- Self-imposed absence from one's country.
- The condition or a period of living away from one's native country.
- One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
- To send into exile; banish. See Synonyms at banish.
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–transitive verb
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Like Napolean in exile, Backman, a former minor league manage of the year and one of several active cynosures of the 1986 Mets glory, has been toiling in exile from the major league system since 2004 after pulling a Bernie Kerik four days into his tenure as manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
A good segment of the civically active and potentially active community in exile is turned off by what they perceive to be the politics of endless recriminations, accusations, labeling, name-calling and finger-pointing.
This will require it to listen more, rehabilitate the odd leper (to show that good behaviour in exile is rewarded) and make MPs feel that they are partners in power — not lobby fodder.
In mulling the offer for dialogue, the Tibetan government in exile is confronting its own political risks.
The government in exile is based in a city in Northern India and advocates for Tibetan refugees and exile communities, but has no authority in Tibet.
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/ (ĕgˈzīlˌ, ĕkˈsīlˌ)/
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Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer.
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