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Migrant   /mˈaɪgrənt/   Listen
Migrant

adjective
1.
Habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work.  Synonym: migratory.  "Migratory workers"



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"Migrant" Quotes from Famous Books



... patris post mortem ducere possunt. Vxorem etiam fratris alter frater iunior post mortem vel alius de parentela iunior ducere tenetur. Reliquas mulieres omnes sine vlla differentia ducunt in vxores, et emunt eas valde pretiose a parentibus suis. Post mortem maritorum de facili ad secunda coniugia non migrant, nisi quis velit suam nouercam ducere in vxorem. [Sidenote: Vestes.] Vestes autem tam virorum quam mulierum sunt vno modo formata. Pallijs, cappis vel capputijs vel pellibus non vtuntur. Tunicas vero portant de Bukeramo, purpura, vel Baldaquino in hunc modum formatas. A supremo ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt

... further segregation. They are denied social contact, are sagaciously separated from the whites in public places of amusement and are clandestinely segregated in public schools in spite of the law to the contrary. As a consequence the Negro migrant often finds himself with less friends than he formerly had. The northern man who once denounced the South on account of its maltreatment of the blacks gradually grows silent when a Negro is brought next door. There comes with the movement, therefore, ...
— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson



Words linked to "Migrant" :   rusher, emigree, migrant shrike, colonist, unsettled, migrate, leaver, goer, traveler, emigre, outgoer, evacuee, traveller, departer, emigrant, settler



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