expatriate vs initial

expatriate

adj
  • Living outside of one's own country. 

verb
  • To withdraw from one’s native country. 

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

  • 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. 

initial

noun
  • A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document. 

  • onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology. 

  • The first letter of a word or a name. 

  • In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit. 

verb
  • To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature. 

adj
  • Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word. 

  • Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin. 

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