"go native" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes native",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going native",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went native",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone native",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "go native (third-person singular simple present goes native, present participle going native, simple past went native, past participle gone native)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "clientitis"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, John Lenczowski, Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy, Lexington Books, page 108",
          "text": "In the case of diplomats, the State Department has had to wrestle with criticisms that regional specialists—say, those who concentrate on the Arab world and speak Arabic—will suffer from “clientitis”: the disease of “going native,” of developing such sympathy for the people and culture of a given region that one begins to represent its interest to America rather than vice versa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Robin Hanson, The Age of Em, page 49",
          "text": "Although I have tried to avoid bias, I may have failed. For example, I may have \"gone native,\" a visitor seduced by the charms of a new exotic world.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "lifestyle",
          "lifestyle"
        ],
        [
          "outlook",
          "outlook"
        ],
        [
          "local",
          "local"
        ],
        [
          "inhabitant",
          "inhabitant"
        ],
        [
          "colonial",
          "colonial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "acculturate"
        },
        {
          "word": "assimilate"
        },
        {
          "word": "integrate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald, The Pentagonists, page 204",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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          "consultant",
          "consultant"
        ],
        [
          "employee",
          "employee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "go native"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes native",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going native",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went native",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone native",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> native"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "clientitis"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, John Lenczowski, Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy, Lexington Books, page 108",
          "text": "In the case of diplomats, the State Department has had to wrestle with criticisms that regional specialists—say, those who concentrate on the Arab world and speak Arabic—will suffer from “clientitis”: the disease of “going native,” of developing such sympathy for the people and culture of a given region that one begins to represent its interest to America rather than vice versa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Robin Hanson, The Age of Em, page 49",
          "text": "Although I have tried to avoid bias, I may have failed. For example, I may have \"gone native,\" a visitor seduced by the charms of a new exotic world.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region."
      ],
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        [
          "lifestyle",
          "lifestyle"
        ],
        [
          "outlook",
          "outlook"
        ],
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          "local",
          "local"
        ],
        [
          "inhabitant",
          "inhabitant"
        ],
        [
          "colonial",
          "colonial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "acculturate"
        },
        {
          "word": "assimilate"
        },
        {
          "word": "integrate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald, The Pentagonists, page 204",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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          "contractor",
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        ],
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          "employee",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "go native"
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