expellee
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GC: n

S: Expgerm – https://bit.ly/2Wn94kR (last access: 12 April 2017); TFL – https://bit.ly/2DDqvq1 (last access: 12 April 2017).

N: 1. 1888, from expel (late 14c., “cast out,” from Latin expellere “drive out, drive away,” from ex “out” + pellere “to drive”; specific meaning “to eject from a school” is first recorded 1640s; related: Expelled; expelling) + -ee (word-forming element in legal English (and in imitation of it), representing the Anglo-French ending of past participles used as nouns; as these sometimes were coupled with agent nouns in -or, the two suffixes came to be used as a pair to denote the initiator and the recipient of an action).
2. A person who is expelled especially from a native or adopted country.
3. A civilian outside the boundaries of the country of his or her nationality or ethnic origin who is being forcibly repatriated to that country or to a third country for political or other purposes. See also displaced person; evacuee; refugee.
4. One forced to emigrate, usually for political reasons

S: 1. OED – https://bit.ly/2TgT5D5 (last access: 12 April 2017). 2. MW – https://bit.ly/2WinnXU (last access: 12 April 2017). 3 & 4. TFD – https://bit.ly/2sR3JFa (last access: 12 April 2017).

SYN: expelled person

S: BC – https://bit.ly/2WrHvam (last access: 12 April 2017)

CR: banished person, deportee, expulsion, extradited person, foreigner, immigration, repatriated person, stateless person.