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adj
Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business
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History
Popularized in the 1990s. From expatriate, replacing ex- by in-. By surface analysis, in- + patriate.
