immigrant
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈɪmɪɡrənt/
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inmigrante
- The problem is that for most Iranian immigrants, life was better before they left.
- illegal immigrants
- immigrants and refugees
- low-income immigrants
James, you're an immigrant in my city.
- James, you're an immigrant in my city.
- It's also damaging because few immigrants are rich.
- As it happens, she comes from an immigrant background herself.
- I, I think growing up as an immigrant, I needed credentials.
- It has done very well by immigrants for the most part.
- They're trying to say that illegal immigrants are refugees.
- I'm a child of foreigners, immigrants from Jamaica.
- We need to be able to have immigrant engineers to run our companies.
- OK, my parents were Indian immigrants to the UK.
- Trump said that the problem with immigrants is when they do crime.
- Some of these sneaky immigrants are sneaky.
Examples
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Many of them were immigrants or children of immigrants.
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First, this study focused on a small group of older immigrants and refugees.
Academic text (2011) -
As it happens, she comes from an immigrant background herself.
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So being a, an immigrant child makes you think a lot.
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I, I think growing up as an immigrant, I needed credentials.
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So I came to England as this immigrant under these English boarding schools.
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It's very common for German restaurants to use immigrant labor.
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Researchers and service providers should focus on the diversity and needs of older immigrant populations.
Academic text (2011) -
Damian Williams was the son of immigrants from Jamaica.
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Many of them were immigrants or children of immigrants.
Synonyms
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3.5
A person who moves to another country or region to find work
170
2.5
A person from a different country who is not a citizen
11
3.4
Born in another country than the one you live in
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9.9
A person who moves to another country to live
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5.1
A person who has recently moved to a new town or area
Antonyms
Compounds
A group of people who moved from another country and have little money and few chances to get a job
How New
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word immigrant breaks into two parts: im- meaning 'into' and migr-, seen in migrate, meaning 'move'. So an immigrant is someone who 'moves into' a new country to live.