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transmigrant

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trans⋅mi⋅grant

  [trans-mahy-gruhnt, tranz-]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that transmigrates.
2. a person passing through a country or place on the way to another place in which he or she intends to settle.
–adjective
3. passing from one place or state to another.
Origin:
1665–75; < L trānsmigrant- (s. of trānsmigrāns), prp. of trānsmigrāre to depart, migrate. See trans-, migrant
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trans·mi·grant   (trāns-mī'grənt, trānz-)   
n.  

  1. One that transmigrates.

  2. One in transit through a country on the way to the country in which one intends to settle.

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