migrant
pronunciation
How to pronounce migrant in British English:
UK [ˈmaɪɡrənt]
How to pronounce migrant in American English:
US [ˈmaɪɡrənt]
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- Noun:
- traveler who moves from one region or country to another
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- Adjective:
- habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
Word Origin
- migrant (adj.)
- 1670s, from Latin migrantem (nominative migrans), present participle of migrare "to remove, depart, to move from one place to another" (see migration).
- migrant (n.)
- "person who migrates," 1760, from migrant (adj.).
Example
- 1. More recently haitian migrant cane cutters have suffered abuses .
- 2. Kazakhstan also limited the time kyrgyzstani migrant workers could stay .
- 3. But the government did little to integrate its migrant populations .
- 4. As with migrant numbers , remittances are hard to measure .
- 5. The customers are wholesalers and bargain-hunting migrant workers .