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inpatriate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
in-pa-tri-ate
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

inpatriates (plural)

Questions

What does inpatriate mean?
An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters.
Where does inpatriate come from?
Popularized in the 1990s. From expatriate, replacing ex- by in-. By surface analysis, in- + patriate.

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