The meaning of Migrant

verb

Take over the place, position, or role of.

Usage examples:

He believes that books may be displaced by the electronic word

adjective

Having been forced to leave your home, for example by a war or dangerous event

Usage examples:

They distribute food and other aid to displaced civilians., nearly four months after the hurricane,…

noun

A displaced person (a person who is forced to leave their home country because of war or persecution).

Usage examples:

He had come over after the war—he was a dp

noun

A person's wife, husband, or partner (particularly used in online forums).

Usage examples:

I'm 36 and my dp is 42 and we have been together for six years

noun

A director of photography (the person who oversees the photography and camerawork in a film, television production, etc.).

Usage examples:

We're looking for a dp for an ambitious action/adventure short film

noun

A person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job.

Usage examples:

Her songs are peopled with drifters, ramblers, old lovers.

noun

A person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose

adjective

Carried slowly by a current of air or water.

Usage examples:

A drifting ocean liner

verb

Be carried slowly by a current of air or water.

Usage examples:

The cabin cruiser started to drift downstream

adjective

Moving slowly, usually with no one or nothing controlling the direction

Usage examples:

He fell asleep at the wheel of the drifting ship., dark, drifting clouds covered the moon., the dri…

noun

A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.

Usage examples:

She was a polish emigrant who came to scotland during the second world war

noun

A person who leaves a country permanently to live in another one

noun

Someone who leaves their country in order to live permanently in another country

Usage examples:

For a growing number of the world's emigrants, china - not the united states - is the land where op…

noun

The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

Usage examples:

He knew now that he would die in exile

verb

Expel and bar (someone) from their native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

Usage examples:

A corrupt dictator who had been exiled from his country

noun

Someone who does not live in his or her own country

noun

Someone who does not live in their own country

Usage examples:

A large community of expatriates has settled there., the company has eight expatriate staff working…

noun

A person who lives outside their native country.

Usage examples:

American expatriates in london

adjective

Denoting or relating to a person living outside their native country.

Usage examples:

Expatriate workers

verb

Send (a person or money) abroad.

Usage examples:

We expatriated the prisoners of war immediately after the end of the war

adjective

Buoyant or suspended in water or air.

Usage examples:

A floating platform

verb

Rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking.

Usage examples:

She relaxed, floating gently in the water

adjective

Not fixed in one position, place, or level

Usage examples:

The city has a large floating population (= people who move around a lot)., the bank has offered us…

noun

A member of a people originating in south asia and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across europe and north and south america and speaking a language (romani) that is related to hindi; a romani person.

Usage examples:

He was a political and social activist who devoted twenty years of his life to regaining the rights…

adjective

(of a business or worker) non-unionized or unlicensed.

Usage examples:

Gypsy trucking firms

noun

A member of a group of people who travel from place to place esp. in europe and who originally came from northern india, or anyone who travels often and does not live in one place for long

adjective

(of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets.

Usage examples:

The plight of young homeless people

adjective

Having no place to live

Usage examples:

A homeless person, homelessness is a major problem in large cities., the homeless sometimes have to…

noun

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

Usage examples:

They found it difficult to expel illegal immigrants

noun

A person who has come into a foreign country in order to live there

Usage examples:

My grandparents arrived here as immigrants from russia in 1910., his family immigrated to the unite…

noun

A person who has come to a country that is not their own in order to live there permanently

Usage examples:

Legal/illegal/undocumented immigrant arizona employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants face s…

noun

A person who has come to live in an area in which they have not grown up, especially in a close-knit rural community.

Usage examples:

An english incomer to orkney

combining form

Denoting a person with a specified level of income.

Usage examples:

Middle-incomer

adjective

Travelling from place to place.

Usage examples:

Itinerant traders

noun

A person who travels from place to place.

Usage examples:

A party of itinerants travelling in around 24 vehicles arrived at the factory on sunday evening.

adjective

(of a person) traveling from one place to another, usually to work for a short period

Usage examples:

Itinerant farm workers

verb

(of an animal, typically a bird or fish) move from one region or habitat to another according to the seasons.

Usage examples:

As autumn arrives, the birds migrate south

verb

Present participle of migrate

Usage examples:

These animals migrate annually in search of food., in september, these birds migrate 2,000 miles so…

adjective

Denoting an animal that migrates.

Usage examples:

Migratory birds

adjective

Having the characteristic of moving regularly to another place

Usage examples:

Migratory birds

adjective

In motion.

Usage examples:

A fast-moving river

verb

Go in a specified direction or manner; change position.

Usage examples:

She moved to the door

noun

The act or process of someone going to live or work in a different place, or of a company taking all or part of its business to a different place

Usage examples:

Any moving expenses will be paid by the company.

noun

A person who has recently arrived in a place.

Usage examples:

She's a newcomer to the area

noun

A member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.

Usage examples:

The withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the sahara to descend into the nile valley

noun

A member of a group of people who move from one place to another, rather than living in one place all of the time

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Nomadic people

adjective

Living the life of a nomad; wandering.

Usage examples:

Nomadic herdsmen

adjective

Moving from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time

Usage examples:

Nomadic people/herdsmen, a nomadic life/existence

adjective

Travelling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.

Usage examples:

The peripatetic nature of military life

noun

A person who travels from place to place, especially a teacher who works in more than one school or college.

Usage examples:

Peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools

adjective

Moving about aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area.

Usage examples:

Roaming herds of reindeer

noun

The practice of using a mobile phone on another operator's network, typically while abroad.

Usage examples:

Eu officials have been cutting the fees companies can charge for roaming

verb

Move about or travel aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area.

Usage examples:

Tigers once roamed over most of asia

noun

A person who spends their time wandering.

Usage examples:

They became rovers who departed further and further from civilization

noun

A pirate.

noun

A person or machine that makes roves of fibre.

adjective

Constantly moving from one area or place to another.

Usage examples:

The fragments of pottery were believed to belong to a community of roving hunter-gatherers

noun

A sliver of cotton, wool, or other fibre, drawn out and slightly twisted, especially preparatory to spinning.

Usage examples:

The energy used to create the fibers - it starts with a plant, then the cords are removed, the mate…

verb

Travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander.

Usage examples:

He spent most of the 1990s roving about the caribbean

noun

A person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.

Usage examples:

The early european settlers in america were often fleeing from religious persecution

adjective

Lasting only for a short time; impermanent.

Usage examples:

A transient cold spell

noun

A person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only.

Usage examples:

The law had been applied to hotels and motels to collect a tax from transients, vacationers, and tr…

adjective

Lasting for only a short time; temporary

Usage examples:

The weakness was transient, and soon i was feeling strong again., transient workers come to pick ap…

noun

A person who is travelling or who often travels.

Usage examples:

Thousands of air travellers were left stranded

noun

A person who travels often, or who is travelling

Usage examples:

Air/rail travellers, business/independent/leisure travellers, business travellers make up just 20% …

adjective

Going or being transported from place to place.

Usage examples:

A travelling exhibition of dutch 17th-century masterpieces

noun

The action or activity of going from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length.

Usage examples:

One thing i've learned from travelling is that you have to respect other countries

verb

Go from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length.

Usage examples:

The vessel had been travelling from libya to ireland

adjective

Lacking order or stability.

Usage examples:

An unsettled childhood

verb

Cause to feel anxious or uneasy; disturb.

Usage examples:

The crisis has unsettled financial markets

adjective

Tending to change suddenly; not having a regular pattern

Usage examples:

Things are unsettled in the state’s political arena., the forecast is for unsettled weather, with m…

noun

A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

Usage examples:

When stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the bowery in chinatown, photographi…

adjective

Relating to or living the life of a vagrant.

Usage examples:

Vagrant beggars

noun

A person who has no home or job and who moves from place to place

noun

A person who travels aimlessly; a traveller.

Usage examples:

He is a longtime seaman, a rootless wanderer

adjective

Travelling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant.

Usage examples:

A wandering preacher

verb

Walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way.

Usage examples:

I wandered through the narrow streets

noun

A person who travels on foot.

Usage examples:

After travel, the wayfarer's home is not the same anymore.

noun

Someone who travels on foot