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Expatriate vs Reffo - What's the difference?

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Expatriate is a related term of reffo.


As nouns the difference between expatriate and reffo

is that expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country while reffo is (australia|derogatory|ethnic slur) a refugee who has settled in australia.

As an adjective expatriate

is of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.

As a verb expatriate

is to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

expatriate

English

(wikipedia expatriate)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
  • * an expatriate mailing list

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives outside one’s own country.
  • One who has been banished from one’s own country.

    • Synonyms

    * * outland

    Derived terms

    * expat * rex-pat, rex-patriate

    Related terms

    * inpatriate * repatriate

    See also

    * immigrant * emigrant

    Verb

    (expatriat)
  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  • To withdraw from one’s native country.
  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

    • Related terms

    * repatriate * patriate

    reffo

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A refugee who has settled in Australia.
  • * 1980', Emery Barcs, ''Backyard of Mars: Memoirs of the “'''Reffo ” Period in Australia , page 73,
    • ‘It may be like this,’ he said ‘Australians are too bloody scared to be frankly unpleasant: Most of them hate the guts of reffos and other alien intruders, especially Jews and Dagos. But they like being liked and cannot resist giving help if it is needed, except, of course, if it?s the boss who needs it.’
  • * 2007 , , Orpheus Lost , 2010, HarperCollins, unnumbered page,
    • On the top floor behind the gabled windows, it was rumored, the reffo' family slept. Mishka did not know, until he began attending the regional school in Mossman at the age of six, that he was a reffo. He was born in the Daintree. His mother before him was born in Daintree. But his grandparents had arrived as refugees from a concentration camp in 1946 and the Bartoks were still a ' reffo family.
  • * 2010 , Alison Booth, Stillwater Creek , 2011, page 56,
    • ‘There are the reffoes ,’ he said loudly. ‘Been here for over a week now and hardly been out at all.’

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