exile

exile
1 noun
1 (singular, uncountable) a situation in which you are forced to leave your country to live in another country, especially for political reasons: After a long period of enforced exile he returned to rule his country again. | be in exile: Some of her best works were written while she was in exile. | go into exile: He was forced to go into exile to escape imprisonment after the coup. | send sb into exile (=force someone to leave)
2 (C) someone who has been forced to live in exile
—see also: tax exile 2 verb (transitive usually passive) to force someone to leave their country, especially for political reasons: After the war he was exiled and the other leaders imprisoned. | exile sb to: After publishing the novel he was arrested and exiled to Siberia. — exiled adjective (only before noun)

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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