No, in my understanding expatriated has two specific meanings: 1. Legally expatriated by a Nation/government. Removed from a nation's territory by decision of

No, in my understanding expatriated has two specific meanings: 1. Legally expatriated by a Nation/government. Removed from a nation's territory by decision of said nation. 2. Comission/Secondment abroad, where an employee of a government/company gets assigned to work abroad for a fixed period. From what I gather the term expat has been appropriated in British-American circles, to somehow detach higher income immigrants from the 'immigrant' stigma. I think this became a de facto convention when Investment Banking and Retail Banks (in non english-speaking countries) started adopting the term 'expat' in customer branding, to target higher income immigrants.