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returnee

noun

Someone who comes back or returns, especially to their own country or region.

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The word 'returnee' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who is returning to a place or situation that they were previously in. Example: The school organized a special welcome party for its returnees who spent a year studying abroad.

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When Toronto last beat the Red Bulls in 2009, Defoe was only a few months into his second spell at Tottenham alongside fellow returnee Robbie Keane, the Canadian team's star player was Dwayne De Rosario, and New York were in the middle of the type of futile season later editions of the Toronto team would repeatedly specialize in.

"Who needs the glass ceiling when you could be running your own business in one of the world's fastest-growing economies, enjoying the warm weather and surrounded by your own people?" one returnee to Ghana told me.

At some point, this ceased to be an individual journey and instead became a phenomenon with its own label – "returnee".

Landlocked and increasingly barren due to climate change, Chad is also straining to accommodate 150,000 of its citizens entering from the desert north – returnee guest workers expelled from Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.

These days, I like to visit a restaurant there, set up by a British Ghanaian returnee, and eat Ghanaian food – or pizza, depending on my mood – alongside so many other fugitives from the polluted city, enjoying the cool mountain air.

Another returnee is Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn, whose last bestseller focused on the pop life and motherhood.

The most anticipated returnee is Adele, whose last record, 21, was the world's biggest selling album of both 2011 and 2012.

That's a sentiment echoed by many Iranian entrepreneurs, including Takhfifan's founder, Nazanin Daneshvar, herself a returnee.

If so, Mr Qadri may be a helpful frontman, as a moderate, liberal, returnee from Canada, who talks repeatedly of respect for the law, democracy and the constitution even as he seeks to undermine them.Does a Bangladesh-style judicial coup look likely?

Though a recent returnee to Britain, I used to go to British party conferences in the mid-1990s as a (very) junior reporter for the daily press.

From September, the authorities will fingerprint deportees to prevent any who return, which they are entitled to do under European Union law, from picking up a second "returnee" payment.The government insists that it is acting legally.

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