Meanings
plural rex-pats · alternative rex-patriate
- USinformalA repeat expatriate; one who becomes expatriated again.
A rex-pat is a returning expatriate, an ex-pat has been here, goes home to America, takes a job, maybe goes to law school, maybe does well in America but can't get Prague out of his or her blood and returns to Prague to live again.
2004, Alan Levy, in the film Rex-patriates, and quoted by The Prague Post: What's a Rex-pathttps://web.archive.org/web/20090105165432/http://www.rexpatriateproductions.com/experts.html
Origin
Blend of repeat + expat. Attributed to Alan Levy, an expatriate who edited The Prague Post from 1990 until his death in 2004.
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