expatriate vs transient

expatriate

noun
  • One who lives outside one's own country. 

  • One who has been banished from 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. 

adj
  • Living outside of one's own country. 

transient

noun
  • A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker. 

  • A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum. 

  • A homeless person. 

  • homestay 

  • A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge. 

  • A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time. 

  • Something that is transient. 

adj
  • Intermediate. 

  • Occasional; isolated; one-off 

  • having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again. 

  • Passing or disappearing with time; transitory. 

  • Decaying with time, especially exponentially. 

  • Operating beyond itself; having an external effect. 

  • Passing through; passing from one person to another. 

  • Remaining for only a brief time. 

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