transmigrant noun & adjective. [tranz'mʌɪgr(ǝ)nt, trɑ:nz-, -ns-] E17.
[Latin transmigrant- pres. ppl stem of transmigrare: see TRANSMIGRATE, -ANT¹.]
A. noun.
1. = EMIGRANT. Only in E17.

2. Orig., a person passing through a country or place temporarily during the process of emigration from one country to another. Now also, a person who is subjected to resettlement in a different part of a country. L19.
New Scientist Indonesian transmigrants starving..but too destitute to return to their original homelands.
b. adjective. That transmigrates. rare. M17.

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