migratory
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5.0
- adjective
- /ˈmaɪɡrəˌtɔri/
:
migrante
- Taken together, the globalization of markets and capital and new American immigration policy diversified the migratory flows of Mexican labor.
- migratory workers
- migratory labor
- migratory movement
They seem like a group of migratory workers for some higher power that maybe Samsung.
- They seem like a group of migratory workers for some higher power that maybe Samsung.
Examples
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But the land had owners: the migratory workers who in the 1960s and 1970s had given up family agriculture.
Academic text (1997) -
The bracero program officially ended in 1964, but Mexican farm workers continued their migratory ways.
Academic text (2003) -
For five years after the war, her family followed a migratory lifestyle, but always within the county.
Academic text (1990) -
As one community leader observed in 1993, migratory workers "come back to the community dressed differently and thinking differently."
Academic text (1997) -
In this land, they encountered people whose herds were migratory, and so, perforce, were the herders.
Fiction book (1990) -
Rather than showing the more characteristic pattern of migratory dispersal, Cubans have become increasingly concentrated in South Florida.
Academic text (1997) -
Conversion of natural vegetation to farmland and ranchland has been extensive in this region, fragmenting habitat along migratory corridors.
Academic text (1999) -
Looking out of place on groomed lawns are the migratory tundra-nesting Pacific Golden Plovers and Ruddy Turnstones.
Academic text (1999) -
Ornithologists have noted declines of many species of North American migratory songbirds (Askins et al., 1990; Terborgh, 1989).
Academic text (1997) -
Many farmers rely on migratory workers to help with the harvest each year.
Synonyms
75
3.9
Often traveling or changing what you do
22
4.9
People who move from place to place instead of living in one home
14
3.7
Moving regularly from place to place, often for seasonal work
2
7.5
Moving often from one place or job to another
2
4.1
Moving from place to place without a fixed home
Moving from place to place rather than living in one place
Traveling from place to place as part of work or life
Moving between low and high land in different seasons to find grass
Living from place to place without a fixed home
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An insect that moves in large swarms and eats crops like wheat and pasture plants
How Migratory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Migratory comes from the Latin migrare, meaning 'to move', and shares the same root as migrate and migrant. So, a migratory person or group is one that regularly moves from place to place, often to find work at certain times of the year.