Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organism, especially an animal, that moves from one region to another (as for breeding) or that has established itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
- noun An itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of work.
- noun A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another; an immigrant.
- adjective Migratory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Changing place; migratory.
- noun One who migrates; a wanderer.
- noun In zoology, specifically, a migratory animal, as a bird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Migratory.
- noun A migratory bird, person, or other animal.
- noun A person who changes residence frequently in search of employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting crops seasonally; also called
migrant laborer ormigrant worker . Sometimes the migrant worker is not a resident of the country in which the work is performed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
migratory bird or other animal. - noun Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- adjective
Migratory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A girlfriend of one of the men took issue with the label "migrant workers," saying it dehumanized them.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RYAN DUBE AND ADRIAN MORROW 2012
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They discuss Mildred's Lane, a collaborative project with Mark Dion, the revolutionary politics of garments, and reclaiming the term migrant worker.
Museum Blogs 2010
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A Mexican congressional report predicts 500 of what it calls migrant workers will die this year, saying those illegal aliens are being forced to take riskier routes to avoid detection by the Border Patrol.
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Actually, they weren't tenant farmers; some were tenant farmers, but most were what we called migrant farmers, migrant workers.
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He had such a difficult time breaking into the field of medicine, even in Los Angeles where things were better, but things were still closed because being a migrant from the South meant youre not immediately accepted by the people who were there already.
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He had such a difficult time breaking into the field of medicine, even in Los Angeles where things were better, but things were still closed because being a migrant from the South meant youre not immediately accepted by the people who were there already.
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We have times when the judges are not believing what the migrant is saying, but at least we are changing their perception, said Chahda.
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He had such a difficult time breaking into the field of medicine, even in Los Angeles where things were better, but things were still closed because being a migrant from the South meant youre not immediately accepted by the people who were there already.
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“It was safer to introduce my boyfriend to my parents as the man who wants to marry me, rather than as the man I am living with,” said Chauhan, a migrant from the mountainous northern town of Simla.
More Young, Unmarried Couples Choosing to Live Together in Urban India | Impact Lab 2010
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He had such a difficult time breaking into the field of medicine, even in Los Angeles where things were better, but things were still closed because being a migrant from the South meant youre not immediately accepted by the people who were there already.
alexz commented on the word migrant
Spotted in the BBC
"A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants."
October 28, 2016