foreign-born
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈfɔrɪn bɔrn/
:
nacido en el extranjero
- Many foreign-born students have benefited from scholarship programs in the United States.
- foreign-born faculty
- foreign-born member
- foreign-born population
All six were foreign born immigrants to the United States.
- All six were foreign born immigrants to the United States.
Examples
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In fact, in some cases, their results show a significant positive effect for the foreign-born TAs.
Academic text (2008) -
You know, a lot of foreign-born people, when they came to America, they used the family name.
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And so we need further support for foreign born women scientists.
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All six were foreign born immigrants to the United States.
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No one must hear the accents that would give them away as foreign born.
Fiction book (1996) -
As it is, 53% of Toronto is foreign-born now, according to the last census.
Blog text (21) -
In 1948, Schumpeter was elected president of the American Economic Association, the first foreign-born scholar to hold that office.
Academic text (1991) -
By 1910, one in three Americans had either immigrated here or had at least one foreign-born parent.
Academic text (1992) -
One of those women actually is foreign born, she's Ilhan Omar from Somalia.
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The economy boomed, and by 1910 over 45 percent of Buenos Aires's 1,232,000 inhabitants were foreign-born.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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2.0
About other countries and how a country deals with them
1
4.9
From another place, often brought there by people
How Native
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3.7
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3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foreign-born is easy to remember: foreign comes from an old word meaning 'outside' and born means 'to be born', so it literally says someone was 'born outside' the country and is used for people born in a different country.