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- noun Plural form of
incomer .
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Examples
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I remember a man once saying to me that he did not believe that the third generation in the east-end of London are existing; they had simply died out, and their place had been taken by incomers from other places of Europe or incomers from the country.
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The incomers were the President and heads of the Commune of Paris, each arrayed in his tricolor _carmagnole_, red bonnet, and great sabre.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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It strongly evokes the atmosphere of this largely rural area in the 1970s: locals, rich 'incomers', itinerant Pickers, and the isolation of the creeks and marshes.
Archive 2004-10-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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It strongly evokes the atmosphere of this largely rural area in the 1970s: locals, rich 'incomers', itinerant Pickers, and the isolation of the creeks and marshes.
Mendal Johnson (part 1) Ray Girvan 2004
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The camp was in the wrong place, there weren't facilities, the Refugee Council disapproved - anything other than the plain unvarnished truth that locals, many of whom were themselves 'incomers' fleeing Birmingham, didn't want 750 young Afghan and Albanian men hanging on the streets of their pretty Georgian town.
Archive 2004-09-26 Laban 2004
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The camp was in the wrong place, there weren't facilities, the Refugee Council disapproved - anything other than the plain unvarnished truth that locals, many of whom were themselves 'incomers' fleeing Birmingham, didn't want 750 young Afghan and Albanian men hanging on the streets of their pretty Georgian town.
Spinster of This Parish Laban 2004
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The camp was in the wrong place, there weren't facilities, the Refugee Council disapproved - anything other than the plain unvarnished truth that locals, many of whom were themselves 'incomers' fleeing Birmingham, didn't want 750 young Afghan and Albanian men hanging on the streets of their pretty Georgian town.
Blame The Jews Says David Duke - Sorry, That's Tam Dalyell Laban 2003
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The camp was in the wrong place, there weren't facilities, the Refugee Council disapproved - anything other than the plain unvarnished truth that locals, many of whom were themselves 'incomers' fleeing Birmingham, didn't want 750 young Afghan and Albanian men hanging on the streets of their pretty Georgian town.
May 04, 2003 Laban 2003
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The camp was in the wrong place, there weren't facilities, the Refugee Council disapproved - anything other than the plain unvarnished truth that locals, many of whom were themselves 'incomers' fleeing Birmingham, didn't want 750 young Afghan and Albanian men hanging on the streets of their pretty Georgian town.
Archive 2003-05-04 Laban 2003
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The not real spaniards bit comes partly from the fact that Spain has a huge amount of immigration both legal and illegal and has had a huge flux of incomers which is disconcerting.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Some of the victims blame second-home owners and “incomers” – those who have arrived in the last few years in search of the good life – claiming some of them are not keen on the sight and sounds of “local” people’s vessels moored in the creek.
‘Real thuggery’: Cornwall boats vandalised amid ‘incomer’ tensions Steven Morris 2021
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