repat
See also: répát
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
repat (plural repats)
- (informal) A repatriate.
- 2007 May 17, Sophia Kishkovsky, “2 Russian Churches, Split by War, Reuniting”, in New York Times[1]:
- One of the most important things you can do as a repat is to help in the reunification of the churches, much more so than anything you’re doing in television or business.
- 2024 February 16, Colette Coleman, “Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Becoming a “repat” felt empowering to Mr. Mahdi as a Black Muslim, he said.
Anagrams
- Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, retap, taper, trape, treap
Latin
Verb
rēpat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of rēpō
Swedish
Verb
repat
- supine of repa