compatriot n - definition in American English Dictionary

compatriot

/kəmˈpeɪ·tri·ət/ n [C]

› a person who comes from your own country:

This writer and several of her Russian compatriots now live in New York.

› A compatriot is also a friend or someone you work with:

After work, I went to dinner with some of my office compatriots.

(Definition of compatriot n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to compete for a position in a sports team or a part in a play

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