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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters.

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to people who are inpatriates, or to inpatriation. not-comparable

Etymology

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

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