Yuriko,a citizen of Japan,was working as a manager in the Japanese branch of an American firm.Due to her efficiency,she was assigned a temporary posting at the headquarters of the firm in America.In this situation,she is known as a(n)
A)repatriate.
B)inpatriate.
C)third-country national.
D)beneficiary.
E)parent-country national.

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Yuriko is a Japanese citizen who is working temporarily at the headquarters of an American firm. As she is a citizen of the home country (Japan) and working in the host country (America), she is known as an inpatriate. Repatriate refers to someone who is returning to their home country after working abroad, third-country national refers to someone who is neither from the home country nor the host country, beneficiary is a general term that doesn't apply in this context, and parent-country national refers to someone who is from the same country as the headquarters of the company they work for.

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