migrant worker

[mahy-gruhnt]

mi·grant

[mahy-gruhnt]
adjective
1.
migrating, especially of people; migratory.
noun
2.
a person or animal that migrates.
3.
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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Migrant worker is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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

non·mi·grant, adjective, noun
un·mi·grant, adjective

emigrant, immigrant, migrant.
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