Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that moves from one region to another by chance, instinct, or plan.
- n. An itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of work.
- adj. Migratory.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Changing place; migratory.
- n. One who migrates; a wanderer.
- n. In zoology, specifically, a migratory animal, as a bird.
Wiktionary
- n. A migratory bird or other animal.
- n. Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- adj. Migratory.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Migratory.
- n. A migratory bird, person, or other animal.
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
- n. traveler who moves from one region or country to another
Etymologies
- Latin migrāns, migrant-, present participle of migrāre, to migrate; see migrate.
Examples
“A girlfriend of one of the men took issue with the label "migrant workers," saying it dehumanized them.”
“They discuss Mildred's Lane, a collaborative project with Mark Dion, the revolutionary politics of garments, and reclaiming the term migrant worker.”
“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.”
“Actually, they weren't tenant farmers; some were tenant farmers, but most were what we called migrant farmers, migrant workers.”
“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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““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.”
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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.”
“A long-term international migrant is defined, using the UN definition, as someone who moves from their country of previous residence for a period of at least a year.”
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“Today, Bryan Finoki of Subtopia and Archinect offers us a provocative article on innovations in migrant housing design.”
“Often, outlets in migrant neighbourhoods such as asian, lebanese, or Indian providors can be cheap whilst maintaining the quality - these are usually run by independant operators who know the constraints of their own communities. here's an example.”
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