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  • verb Present participle of expatriate.

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Examples

  • It began in 2003 when some of my large-sample empirical research with [University of Michigan professor] Jim Hines led me to think harder about moves that several firms, including Stanley Works, had made toward "expatriating" or leaving the United States for Bermuda.

    HBS Working Knowledge 2009

  • At a meeting in Boston in 1847 the Colonization Society was referred to as the expatriating institution which would never be able to expel "Americans by birth" pledged never to leave their native land. [

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • But the trier of fact must in the end conclude that the citizen not only voluntarily committed the expatriating act prescribed in the statute, but also intended to relinquish his citizenship.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Peter Spiro on Lieberman’s Citizenship-Stripping Legislation 2010

  • Sitka Charley, from boyhood, had been thrown continually with white men, and as a man he had elected to cast his fortunes with them, expatriating himself, once and for all, from his own people.

    THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL 2010

  • * The military did not act properly in forcibly expatriating Zelaya.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Obama Administration — Still Wrong on Honduras 2009

  • Sitka Charley, from boyhood, had been thrown continually with white men, and as a man he had elected to cast his fortunes with them, expatriating himself, once and for all, from his own people.

    The Wisdom of the Trail 2010

  • In the mid-term election, Americans red-in-the-face angry at the GOP for extending tax breaks to corporations for expatriating American jobs have the opportunity to show Republican politicians what it feels like to lose a job.

    Leo W. Gerard: No Fluke: Republicans Support Off-Shoring Jobs Leo W. Gerard 2010

  • Ireland taxes its expatriating citizens only when they actually sell their assets within three years of emigrating.

    Freedom Means Free to Leave, Too 2011

  • In the mid-term election, Americans red-in-the-face angry at the GOP for extending tax breaks to corporations for expatriating American jobs have the opportunity to show Republican politicians what it feels like to lose a job.

    Leo W. Gerard: No Fluke: Republicans Support Off-Shoring Jobs Leo W. Gerard 2010

  • But both require expatriating retirees to make a hefty local financial investment, and it's a 13-hour-plus plane ride back to the West Coast.

    The Best Foreign Retirement Havens 2010

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