migrant-worker

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.
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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migrant (ˈmaɪɡrənt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—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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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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