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migrant

[mahy-gruhnt]

adjective

migrating, especially of people; migratory.

noun

a person or animal that migrates.

Also called migrant worker. a person who moves from place to place to get work, especially a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.

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Origin:
1665–75; < Latin migrant- (stem of migrāns), present participle of migrāre. See migrate, -ant

Related forms

non·mi·grant, adjective, noun

un·mi·grant, adjective

Can be confused: emigrant, immigrant, migrant.

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It isn't for nothing that creative writers have been called the migrant workers of the word harvest.

But big migrant flows are mostly between nearby countries.

Migration: medium- to long-distance trans-Gulf migrant.

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It isn't for nothing that creative writers have been called the migrant workers of the word harvest.

But big migrant flows are mostly between nearby countries.

Migration: medium- to long-distance trans-Gulf migrant.

We worked for a while as migrant farm laborers, and then three of us-three families-bought a farm.

The demand has moved to a different model of educator-scholars: educational migrant workers.

Tens of millions of people-students, white-collar city-dwellers and rural migrant workers-head home for family reunions.

Migration: not a migrant in the true sense, in that individuals are not known to return to breeding or wintering grounds.

During the summer migrant workers arrive to harvest the vegetables.

You're doing more of the right thing to help a new migrant to this country.

The economic slowdown has driven migrant workers home, increasing populations in affected areas.

The calls of a flock of black-cappeds in the fall often signal the presence of migrant warblers and vireos.

Discusses the two authors as key examples of migrant and exiled writers who create hybrid worlds.

Like the rose-breasted, it is a neotropical migrant.

It is, more or less, an academic migrant worker position.

Migration: short-distance migrant that rarely strays far from nesting areas.

Migrant workers who are cheated by their employers and live in squalor while providing all of us with food are exploited.

Sometimes, migrant workers travel many thousands of miles.

It was strawberry season, and every day migrant workers were bent over double picking strawberries in the fields.

Health care for many migrant workers is provided by a parallel system of spiritual healers and home remedies.

It's a novel about migrant farmworks that takes on pesticide use, environmental racism, and labor exploitation.

They are nowadays comparable to the steadily rising wages of uneducated migrant workers.

On the sun-splashed street above, migrant laborers slurp down rice and tofu.

He grew up the son of migrant farm workers for whom the days of slavery were a less than distant memory.

Schools in migrant communities struggle against mobility, violence and low academic expectations.

Russia's police are often more preoccupied with extracting bribes from migrant workers than with security.

China remains a country where migrant workers are routinely exploited.

Two main manufacturing areas have an acute shortage of migrant workers, giving laborers leverage.

Policymakers are overlooking the potential of migrant labor in a global economic recovery.

Migrant farm workers have long been the nation's poorest group of workers.

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migrant (ˈmaɪɡrənt)

—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.

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