English Explanatory Dictionary

inpatriate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters.
adj
  1. Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.

Word forms

inpatriate inpatriates

Etymology

Popularized in the 1990s. From expatriate, replacing ex- by in-. By surface analysis, in- + patriate.

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