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Definition of immigrant in English: immigrantnoun ˈɪmɪɡr(ə)ntˈɪməɡrənt A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. they found it difficult to expel illegal immigrants as modifier immigrant workers Example sentencesExamples - My father was an immigrant who came over from Holland after the Nazi occupation.
- Their parents are often recent immigrants living in low-income communities.
- Thousands of people have staged demonstrations across Spain in support of protesting immigrant workers.
- Politicians in Birmingham have warned that areas with large first-generation immigrant populations are particularly vulnerable to intimidation.
- These parties are not motivated by a defence of the right of immigrants to live where they choose.
- The wave of German Jewish immigrants during the mid-nineteenth century represented the first major Jewish population explosion in America.
- Several immigrant workers drew parallels with their experiences in other countries.
- When detained immigrants do find lawyers, confinement makes the detainees more difficult to represent.
- MY great grandparents were all Polish immigrants who arrived in the 19th century in the East End of London.
- She added that the government was wrong to exclude mainland immigrants from the draft, citing international law.
- As I expected, I found that all of the parents are immigrants to this country.
- And right now, smuggling immigrants across those borders is a booming business.
- In Saxon terms, the Normans were second or third generation immigrants to Northern France.
- Yet immigrant workers contribute £2.5 billion to the British economy every year.
- The churches offered support and shelter to Central American immigrants.
- Most of the work available to immigrants without legal papers is sporadic, and underemployment is a problem for many.
- Great variation exists in the ways community colleges have responded to the rising immigrant student population on their campuses.
- Another theme running through the huge demo was solidarity with refugees and immigrants.
- During these three decades, only 7.5 million immigrants arrived, most after 1945.
- Many immigrant workers died; they had supported entire families in their home countries.
Synonyms newcomer, settler, incomer, new arrival, migrant, emigrant non-native, foreigner, foreign national, alien, outsider, stranger naturalized citizen, expatriate informal expat
Origin Late 18th century: from Latin immigrant- 'immigrating', from the verb immigrare, on the pattern of emigrant. Definition of immigrant in US English: immigrantnounˈɪməɡrəntˈiməɡrənt 1A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. they found it difficult to expel illegal immigrants as modifier immigrant workers Example sentencesExamples - These parties are not motivated by a defence of the right of immigrants to live where they choose.
- Another theme running through the huge demo was solidarity with refugees and immigrants.
- The wave of German Jewish immigrants during the mid-nineteenth century represented the first major Jewish population explosion in America.
- Politicians in Birmingham have warned that areas with large first-generation immigrant populations are particularly vulnerable to intimidation.
- My father was an immigrant who came over from Holland after the Nazi occupation.
- As I expected, I found that all of the parents are immigrants to this country.
- Many immigrant workers died; they had supported entire families in their home countries.
- MY great grandparents were all Polish immigrants who arrived in the 19th century in the East End of London.
- And right now, smuggling immigrants across those borders is a booming business.
- Yet immigrant workers contribute £2.5 billion to the British economy every year.
- During these three decades, only 7.5 million immigrants arrived, most after 1945.
- She added that the government was wrong to exclude mainland immigrants from the draft, citing international law.
- Their parents are often recent immigrants living in low-income communities.
- The churches offered support and shelter to Central American immigrants.
- When detained immigrants do find lawyers, confinement makes the detainees more difficult to represent.
- Thousands of people have staged demonstrations across Spain in support of protesting immigrant workers.
- In Saxon terms, the Normans were second or third generation immigrants to Northern France.
- Most of the work available to immigrants without legal papers is sporadic, and underemployment is a problem for many.
- Great variation exists in the ways community colleges have responded to the rising immigrant student population on their campuses.
- Several immigrant workers drew parallels with their experiences in other countries.
Synonyms newcomer, settler, incomer, new arrival, migrant, emigrant - 1.1Biology An animal or plant living or growing in a region to which it has migrated.
Origin Late 18th century: from Latin immigrant- ‘immigrating’, from the verb immigrare, on the pattern of emigrant. |