immigrant
[noun]
Synonyms: settler, incomer, newcomer

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im‧mi‧grant AC /ˈɪməɡrənt, ˈɪmɪɡrənt/ noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: immigration ≠ emigration, immigrant ≠ emigrant; verb: immigrate ≠ emigrate]
someone who enters another country to live there permanently ⇒ emigrant:
an illegal immigrant
a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East

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immigrant
noun
ADJ. illegal | foreign | Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc. | recent | would-be | first-generation, second-generation First-generation immigrants may dream of returning ‘home’; their children say Britain is their home.
QUANT. flood, influx, wave
VERB + IMMIGRANT accept, welcome | deport, return ships laden with would-be immigrants who were forcibly returned
IMMIGRANT + VERB arrive, enter sth immigrants seeking to enter the country
come from sth | settle (sth) European immigrants settled much of Australia.
IMMIGRANT + NOUN community, family, group, population | worker | labour
PREP. ~ from, ~ to She was the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America.

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immigrant

an illegal immigrant
Large numbers of illegal immigrants have found their way into the country.
a legal immigrant
Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada.
a recent immigrant
The majority of workers at the factory are recent immigrants.
European/African etc immigrants
There has been a recent increase in the number of African immigrants.
a first-generation immigrant (=someone who is an immigrant, or whose parents were immigrants)
Her parents were first-generation immigrants from Poland.
a second-generation immigrant (=someone whose parents or grandparents were immigrants)
These boys are second-generation immigrants who grew up speaking English.
a wave/influx of immigrants (=a large number of them)
A new wave of immigrants arrived in the 1950s.
a flood of immigrants (=a very large number of immigrants that arrive at the same time)
He suggested the country would experience a flood of immigrants.
an immigrant family
A quarter of the school’s students are from immigrant families.
immigrant workers
Many immigrant workers had to live in deprived areas.
an immigrant community
There are shops catering for the various immigrant communities.
the immigrant population
The immigrant population increased rapidly during the 1970s.

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