Optant

noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.nounA person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.

2.nounA person who opts into, out of, or for something.

Synonyms

step-country belonger citizen of the world peregrine emigree cocitizen oldcomer inmigrant émigré citizen internally displaced person binational

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