migrant — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(noun.)

ADJ

economic | illegal | rural

MIGRANT + NOUN

labourer, worker

Many migrant labourers send most of their wages back home to their families.

population | bird

PREP

~ from

Many migrants from Central America have settled in cities across the United States.

~ into, ~ to

Many families depend on income from relatives who work as migrants into neighboring countries.

PHRASES

a flow/an influx of migrants

Definitions

noun

1

A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.

Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."

2

Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.

3

A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.

These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.

“But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”

4

Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.

adj

1

Migratory.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — traveler who moves from one region or country to another

migrator

adjective — habitually moving from place to place especially in search o

migratory

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants

Wiktionary

02

These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where

Wiktionary

03

“But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilit

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04

There are many migrant farm-worker children at our school.

Tatoeba · #3097130

05

The central European states of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria have imposed land border closures, blocking migrant workers from crossing the continent.

Tatoeba · #8663666

06

What is the aim of Ursula von der Leyen with the migrant flows?

Tatoeba · #10537725

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, migrant is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.