migrant worker
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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.
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Example sentences
They also worked with a migrant worker liaison to provide parent education and referrals to health resources.
It is, more or less, an academic migrant worker position.
Prior to receiving training, she was a migrant worker.
We used to have a guest migrant worker program that required the workers to return home after the seasonal work was done.
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