| 单词 | legal immigrant |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslegal immigrant legal immigrant n. a person who has been granted official permission to reside in a foreign country; opposed to illegal immigrant. ΚΠ 1891 N.-Y. Evangelist 24 Dec. 8/1 One of the Special Commissioners..was sent abroad..to learn..the ways and means by which European paupers were landed in this country as legal immigrants in spite of law. 1936 Internat. Affairs 15 691 The average number of Jewish immigrants [in Palestine] is fifty thousand legal immigrants, beside the illegal ones, whose numbers are unknown. 1980 M. D. Bayles Morality & Population Policy viii. 93 Smaller quotas for legal immigrants may not stop, but exacerbate, the exploitation of illegal immigrants. 2014 Sunday Times (Nexis) 4 May 29 Numerous surveys have shown that legal immigrants put more into the economy in taxes and wealth-creation than they take out in benefits and using services. < as lemmas |
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