go native

Definitions

1. 1

   To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a…

   To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region.

   • […]for St. Xavier's looks down on boys who ‘go native all-together.’ One must never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations are passed, one will command natives.
   • He was an extraordinary figure, with his red beard and matted hair, and his great hairy chest. His feet were horny and scarred, so that I knew he went always bare foot. He had gone native with a vengeance.
   • Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home.
2. 2

   Of a contractor or consultant, to begin working directly as an employee for a company and…

   Of a contractor or consultant, to begin working directly as an employee for a company and cease to work through a contracting firm or agency.

   • […] we had to stop putting job-hunting colonels in charge of AFPRO detachments in the plants. It almost always happened that they went native and began to represent the contractor rather than the government.

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