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Definition of foreigner in English: foreignernoun ˈfɒrɪnəˈfɔrənər 1A person born in or coming from a country other than one's own. Example sentencesExamples - These pages provide information for employers hiring foreigners and foreigners coming to work in Finland or already living in Finland.
- But the number of attacks and harassment against foreigners in Ukraine in the last few months make it necessary to investigate the motives of this murder carefully, including racist motivations.
- Few foreigners are badly hurt during the kidnappings and ransom fees are usually paid to secure their release.
- This foreigner was born in Japan, as were his parents.
- This right wing party is attacking foreigners and foreign cultures.
- Not that I don't think it's a good idea - hell, if it had been my misfortune to be born a foreigner, I might do the same - but I wonder what put it in their heads to do it now.
- This sounds unlikely coming from a farang - the Thai term for a foreigner - but the trader doesn't hesitate.
- The only locals here have been brought by foreigners, and foreigners would only bring a local for one reason.
- Exchange permits may, furthermore, be issued to foreigners not older than 25 years of age, who wish to participate in cultural, economic or social exchange programmes, administered by an organ of State or a public higher educational institution in conjunction with an organ of a foreign state.
- They hate foreigners because Americans are foreigners, fugitives from the old order.
- It is those foreigners sent here by foreign companies that receive high salaries for working in Shanghai.
- An important distinction is that between foreigners passing through and metics settled in the polis.
- How many European elections are contested by foreigners with foreign accents?
- Looking around this country through the eyes of a gaijin - a foreigner - things are just different.
- The name of a child born to a foreigner in Bulgaria will be determined according to the parents' decision.
- I will forever be a foreigner, of course, gaijin, a dog who walks on hind legs, and that's fine by me - it's not my culture.
- In Japan it seems, once a foreigner, eternally a foreigner.
- At midday Wednesday, buses brought some 90 Ukrainians from Gaza into Israel, and more foreigners were expected to enter later in the day, military spokesman Shadi Yassin said.
- Immigrants may mean refugees, migrants, remigrants and other foreigners and, in some cases, asylum seekers as well.
- Like the French crowds of 1792, they turned their wrath against foreigners and foreign words.
- 1.1informal A person not belonging to a particular place or group; a stranger or outsider.
Example sentencesExamples - Their job is to assault all outsiders and foreigners in the village!
- God has prepared a city for us strange Presbyterians and for all the other foreigners God loves.
- The man from Europe is still a foreigner and an alien.
- All foreigners and outsiders, however, were suspect in everybody's eyes.
- Targeting wealthy foreigners, houses for outsiders were much more expensive than houses for locals.
- It needs a foreigner's eye, an outside viewpoint to see things the local people no longer see.
- Born in Glasgow, he seemed more like a foreigner than a familiar face after the best part of two decades playing and coaching in Holland.
- You may even feel like an outsider - a foreigner in your own country.
- He did concede that he would never quite belong at Old Trafford, would always remain a foreigner there.
- You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man on the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here.
- Many immigrants are classed as foreigners in Germany, despite being born or brought up in the country.
- From his youth, he had styled himself as a foreigner and an outsider.
- Almost all of my films of the year came from abroad, or were made in America by foreigners or outsiders.
- I was an outsider, a foreigner, not even an employee and we talked about anything and everything.
Synonyms alien, foreign national, non-native, immigrant, settler, newcomer, stranger, outsider visitor, tourist British incomer Northern English offcomer SE Asian gweilo
2British informal A piece of work done for private gain without an employer's permission or without declaration to the relevant authorities. Definition of foreigner in US English: foreignernounˈfôrənərˈfɔrənər 1A person born in or coming from a country other than one's own. Example sentencesExamples - Immigrants may mean refugees, migrants, remigrants and other foreigners and, in some cases, asylum seekers as well.
- Not that I don't think it's a good idea - hell, if it had been my misfortune to be born a foreigner, I might do the same - but I wonder what put it in their heads to do it now.
- In Japan it seems, once a foreigner, eternally a foreigner.
- At midday Wednesday, buses brought some 90 Ukrainians from Gaza into Israel, and more foreigners were expected to enter later in the day, military spokesman Shadi Yassin said.
- Looking around this country through the eyes of a gaijin - a foreigner - things are just different.
- Like the French crowds of 1792, they turned their wrath against foreigners and foreign words.
- But the number of attacks and harassment against foreigners in Ukraine in the last few months make it necessary to investigate the motives of this murder carefully, including racist motivations.
- Exchange permits may, furthermore, be issued to foreigners not older than 25 years of age, who wish to participate in cultural, economic or social exchange programmes, administered by an organ of State or a public higher educational institution in conjunction with an organ of a foreign state.
- They hate foreigners because Americans are foreigners, fugitives from the old order.
- How many European elections are contested by foreigners with foreign accents?
- It is those foreigners sent here by foreign companies that receive high salaries for working in Shanghai.
- These pages provide information for employers hiring foreigners and foreigners coming to work in Finland or already living in Finland.
- The name of a child born to a foreigner in Bulgaria will be determined according to the parents' decision.
- This foreigner was born in Japan, as were his parents.
- This sounds unlikely coming from a farang - the Thai term for a foreigner - but the trader doesn't hesitate.
- Few foreigners are badly hurt during the kidnappings and ransom fees are usually paid to secure their release.
- I will forever be a foreigner, of course, gaijin, a dog who walks on hind legs, and that's fine by me - it's not my culture.
- An important distinction is that between foreigners passing through and metics settled in the polis.
- This right wing party is attacking foreigners and foreign cultures.
- The only locals here have been brought by foreigners, and foreigners would only bring a local for one reason.
- 1.1informal A person not belonging to a particular place or group; a stranger or outsider.
Example sentencesExamples - He did concede that he would never quite belong at Old Trafford, would always remain a foreigner there.
- All foreigners and outsiders, however, were suspect in everybody's eyes.
- God has prepared a city for us strange Presbyterians and for all the other foreigners God loves.
- I was an outsider, a foreigner, not even an employee and we talked about anything and everything.
- You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man on the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here.
- From his youth, he had styled himself as a foreigner and an outsider.
- The man from Europe is still a foreigner and an alien.
- Targeting wealthy foreigners, houses for outsiders were much more expensive than houses for locals.
- Many immigrants are classed as foreigners in Germany, despite being born or brought up in the country.
- You may even feel like an outsider - a foreigner in your own country.
- Born in Glasgow, he seemed more like a foreigner than a familiar face after the best part of two decades playing and coaching in Holland.
- Almost all of my films of the year came from abroad, or were made in America by foreigners or outsiders.
- It needs a foreigner's eye, an outside viewpoint to see things the local people no longer see.
- Their job is to assault all outsiders and foreigners in the village!
Synonyms alien, foreign national, non-native, immigrant, settler, newcomer, stranger, outsider
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