expatriate vs import

expatriate

verb
  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. 

  • To withdraw from one’s native country. 

  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country. 

noun
  • One who has been banished from one's own country. 

  • One who lives outside one's own country. 

adj
  • Living outside of one's own country. 

import

verb
  • To be incumbent on (someone to do something). 

  • To mean, signify. 

  • To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence. 

  • To load a file into a software application from another version or system. 

  • To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade. 

  • To be important or crucial to (that something happen). 

  • To be of importance to (someone or something). 

noun
  • Significance, importance. 

  • The practice of importing. 

  • Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade. 

  • A foreigner playing in a sports league. 

How often have the words expatriate and import occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )