migrant
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈmaɪɡrənt/
:
migrante
- Margarita later met Erasmo Adame-Briseno, 26 years her senior, while both were employed as migrant farm workers.
- migrant workers
- migrant labor
- migrant farmworker
I taught school, I drove trucks, I picked fruit as a migrant laborer, that kind of thing.
- I taught school, I drove trucks, I picked fruit as a migrant laborer, that kind of thing.
- He will also be in charge of the entity that cares for migrant children within this country.
- It's between the interland of countries Turkey and the European Union sending migrant labour back and forth.
- And I started out as a farmhand and then I worked, they had a migrant worker, I guess, and we shared a room for a while, Latino gentlemen.
Examples
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My parents came here as migrant farm workers.
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The festival celebrated the culture and contributions of migrant workers in the community.
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Where are you gonna live, in a migrant labor camp?
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Nah, you and I, we're just migrant workers in the land of opportunity.
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Many of these Hispanic students were from migrant families who left school in winter and returned in early spring.
Academic text (2008) -
It's a study done by one of our sociology researchers about migrant movement across the border.
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He will also be in charge of the entity that cares for migrant children within this country.
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Internationally, it may be useful to engage individuals in ethnic enclaves to help migrant workers develop informal support networks.
Academic text (2008) -
PNA also offers a one-week special program during the year that focuses on migrant and farmworker issues.
Academic text (1993) -
Belle Glade was the base for the migrant labor stream on Florida's eastern seaboard.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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4.9
People who move from place to place instead of living in one home
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4.1
Moving from place to place without a fixed home
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5.0
People who move to different places to find work at certain times of the year
Moving between low and high land in different seasons to find grass
Moving from place to place rather than living in one place
Compounds
How Mobile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word migrant as an adjective also comes from the Latin migrare, 'to move', and it describes people or animals that move from place to place, like workers who travel for seasonal work or birds that leave each winter.