incomer
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈɪnˌkoʊmər/
- UK
:
recién llegado
- Incomers also evaluated individuals personally, even if they, too, held stereotypes about the local category.
- locals and incomers
- incomers and landlords
- working-class incomers
Examples
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The categories of Incomer and landlord overlap, although Incomers are not all landlords and landlords are not all Incomers or absentee landlords.
Academic text (1991) -
The town welcomed its new incomers with a community festival to help them feel at home.
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Incomers are people who have come to live in Bay Village as adults or children.
Academic text (1991) -
Hamish did not bother asking who the incomers were.
Fiction book (2002) -
One man from Stornoway in the Western Isles was asked if he was a local or an incomer.
Academic text (1991) -
Some animosities exist between the two categories of locals and incomers.
Academic text (1991) -
There were no locals until outsiders began to arrive, and similarly with incomers.
Academic text (1991) -
One complaint was that incomers "take over," wanting to change traditions and customs, and this was resented.
Academic text (1991) -
As an incomer, she found it hard to find her place in the tight-knit community.
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After living there for a month, the incomers began to appreciate the local culture and traditions.
Synonyms
181
3.5
A person who moves to another country or region to find work
123
1.6
A person who has recently arrived in a place, joined a group, or started an activity
How New
- UK
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5.1
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1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word incomer is easy to remember: it joins in- meaning 'into', the verb come meaning 'to arrive', and the ending -er meaning 'a person who', so it is simply a person who 'comes into' a place. That's why an incomer is someone who has just arrived to live or work in a community.