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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immigrant
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
illegal immigrant
illegal immigrants
▪ An estimated seven million illegal immigrants are brought into Europe each year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ There is also some evidence that black immigrants are more entrepreneurial than native-born blacks.
▪ Soon, two-thirds of the black immigrants had left the state.
▪ The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.
▪ One of the consequences of this is an ambivalent attitude to black immigrants.
illegal
▪ The president beefs up the border controls and institutes checks against the employment of illegal immigrants.
▪ Only 37 percent of Latinos agreed, with 56 percent saying that illegal immigrants had a good effect.
▪ Meanwhile, the nightly flood of illegal immigrants into Imperial Beach slowed to a trickle.
▪ It also would open Arizona companies to lawsuits from legal residents who are replaced in their work by illegal immigrants.
▪ And does anyone doubt that the fleeing illegal immigrants will be rewarded handsomely?
▪ The judge also barred provisions that would have allowed state agencies to investigate and report alleged illegal immigrants.
legal
▪ C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants.
▪ When it comes to legal immigrants, Californians are liberal enough.
▪ When he signed the bill, Clinton said he would fight this year to restore benefits for legal immigrants.
▪ Groups of legal immigrants have started to demonstrate at the Capitol to express their demands for restoration of cuts relevant to them.
▪ The nation had 11. 8 million legal immigrants in 1990, according to the Census Bureau.
▪ The bill would also have denied numerous benefits and services to legal immigrants.
new
▪ The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector.
▪ Basically, these are jobs for the unskilled, including the new immigrants coming in.
▪ The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.
▪ And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices.
▪ The variety of languages spoken on the streets and in shops is extraordinary - for new immigrants as well as the old Anglo settlers.
▪ After each new wave of immigrants became enfranchised, they began electing people of their own background, she said.
▪ The Hanmer family were the first of the new immigrants to appear and they were still there 120 years later.
poor
▪ She herself found time now to help with poorer immigrants.
▪ In other words, his message is: no poor immigrants please, just highly qualified ones.
recent
▪ And many of the town-dwellers of 1880 were recent immigrants from the countryside.
▪ The impact of this recent influx of immigrants on education in the United States has been significant.
▪ Many had considerable reading and writing skills, but about 20 percent were recent immigrants, often with language difficulties.
▪ All three varietals seem to be adapting well to California, considering that they are recent immigrants.
▪ These were mainly long-standing residents of Maputo, not recent immigrants.
soviet
▪ The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector.
▪ The budget was based on the arrival of an estimated 300,000 Soviet immigrants during 1991.
▪ Some figures showed that as many as 40 percent of Soviet immigrants were unemployed.
undocumented
▪ Wilson tried, with little success, to get the federal government to reimburse the state for providing services to undocumented immigrants.
▪ There has been harsh rhetoric against documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as attempts to deprive them of essential human services.
■ VERB
benefit
▪ George Pataki who criticized the reform plan for denying Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants who are not citizens.
▪ Among their complaints: The new law cuts food stamps and bans some federal welfare benefits for some legal immigrants.
▪ The proposal would maintain Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid benefits for disabled legal immigrants who have not become citizens.
▪ He attacks illegal immigration and opposes welfare benefits for illegal immigrants.
help
▪ She herself found time now to help with poorer immigrants.
▪ Unacceptable police behaviour in Roissy's waiting area has been repeatedly denounced by organisations that help immigrants.
hire
▪ His top opponents were snagged by the Zoe Baird affair; they too had hired illegal immigrants to care for their children.
▪ President Clinton issued an order Tuesday barring federal contracts from companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jae Min's parents are immigrants from South Korea.
▪ Santa Clara was a mesh of Italian, Mexican and German immigrants in the 1800s.
▪ The bill would have cut off government aid even to legal immigrants.
▪ The new immigrants come mainly from Asia and Latin America.
▪ The winery was started by an Italian immigrant to California.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between 1820 and 1920 some 35 million immigrants reached the United States.
▪ From people worried about the country being marginally swamped by immigrants, no doubt.
▪ It was these immigrants who did so much for the pioneer areas and young industries.
▪ Mr Stoiber has been in the forefront of those calling for tighter restrictions on asylum-seekers and ordinary immigrants.
▪ Once on the job, strong immigrant networks mean that other immigrants tend to be hired when new openings emerge.
▪ There is also some evidence that black immigrants are more entrepreneurial than native-born blacks.
▪ This is a nation of immigrants.
▪ With illegal immigrants, the decision will be easy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immigrant

Immigrant \Im"mi*grant\, n. [L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See Immigrate.] One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Syn: See Emigrant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immigrant

"one who immigrates," 1792, in an American context, from French immigrant, from Latin immigrantem (nominative immigrans), present participle of immigrare (see immigrate). Emigrant is older. As an adjective from 1805.

Wiktionary
immigrant

a. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrate. n. 1 A person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there. 2 A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

WordNet
immigrant

n. a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

Wikipedia
Immigrant (disambiguation)

An immigrant is a person who moves to another country.

Immigrant or variant may also refer to:

Film
  • The Immigrant (1915 film), a feature film produced by Jesse Lasky
  • The Immigrant (1917 film), a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charles Chaplin
  • Immigrants (1948 film), a 1948 Italian drama film
  • Immigrants (2008 film), a 2008 Hungarian film
  • The Immigrant (2013 film), a 2013 American drama film written and directed by James Gray
Music
  • The Immigrant: A New American Musical, a musical based on a play by Mark Harelik
  • " The Immigrant", a 1975 song by Neil Sedaka
  • " Immigrant Song", a 1970 song by Led Zeppelin
Other
  • HaOlim (The Immigrants), a defunct political party in Israel
  • The Immigrants (1977 novel)

Usage examples of "immigrant".

Captain Miles Standish, the leader of a group of religious fanatics from England, who believed in the imminent arrival of Armageddon in Europe, invited a local tribe of Algonkian Indians, the Wampanoag, to join them for a dinner celebrating the good fortune that had seen their immigrant community established in New England.

Just as economic and political Americanism has been broad enough and vital enough to make a place in the American social economy for the hordes of European immigrants with their many diverse national characteristics, so the intellectual basis of Americanism must be broad enough to include and vigorous enough to assimilate the special ideals and means of discipline necessary to every kind of intellectual or moral excellence.

Americans are fully Americanized, since the United States in the new millennium is still a nation of immigrants and a multicultural, cosmopolitan country.

The second wave of immigrants - southern Europeans, Asians, Irish and Latinos - encountered an entrenched dominant culture of mostly Anglo- and northern-European Protestants, and suffered accordingly.

The town was already jammed with immigrants, and people were starting to build on hillside areas that Anse himself thought were questionable at best.

After that they moved in the immigrants, the Sephardic Jews from Spain, Belgian and French craftsmen, then the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.

Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York City, a veritable Ashkenazi tidal wave.

By 1880, Chinese immigrants, brought in by the railroads to do the backbreaking labor at pitiful wages, numbered 75,000 in California, almost one-tenth of the population.

How many votes would you get for teffing those people down there that the Jew is brainier than they are, or that these immigrant Czechs and Hungarians are more hard working?

That generation of German immigrants, settlers in the Chautauqua Valley in the l88Os.

She took down the tag number then relayed this to Rhyme, who said he would in turn put out another vehicle locator request, in addition to the one on the Honda, and tell the Port Authority police to pass the word to the toll takers at the bridges and tunnels, on the assumption that the immigrants were headed for Chinatown in Manhattan.

The sausage came by weekly fast-runner from Dodoma in the north, and was manufactured by a man of emus, a Westphalian immigrant who made sausages with the taste of the Black Forest in them.

One such immigrant, Charles Feltman, started as a pie vendor on Coney Island, New York, but switched to the lunch cart business in 1867.

The Fijian rites of initiation seem to have been imported by Melanesian immigrants from the west.

On the contrary, they were overwhelmed by such immigrants -- by relatively barbarian Hamites like the Bahima, Lwoo, and Masai -- and this over a period of several centuries, for the Bahima had reached the height of their power in Uganda by about 1600, while the Masai were not at the height of theirs, in Kenya and Tanganyika, until 18001850.