migrant
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or animal that moves from one region, place, or country to another |
| 2. | an itinerant agricultural worker who travels from one district to another |
| 3. | chiefly (Austral) |
| a. an immigrant, esp a recent one | |
| b. (as modifier): a migrant hostel | |
| —adj | |
| 4. | moving from one region, place, or country to another; migratory |
| [C17: from Latin migrāre to change one's abode] | |
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Word Origin & History
migrant
1672, from L. migrantem (nom. migrans), prp. of migrare "to move from one place to another" (see migration). The noun meaning "person who migrates" is first recorded 1670.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
The economy depends heavily on money from migrant workers.
Those countries with the tightest restrictions seem not to have appreciably fewer migrant workers.
We've had a migrant agricultural workforce for more than a century.
Many of the townspeople continued the tradition of farming with the aid of migrant workers, who lived in ramshackle huts.
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