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noun

immigrant

CEFR B2

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

In a sentence

Six example sentences with immigrant, each labelled with its topic.

  • Ellis Island processed twelve million arrivals, and nearly every immigrant carried a name written down by someone else.

    History

  • The neighborhood's best bakery was opened by an immigrant from Aleppo who could not find the bread of home anywhere.

    Cooking

  • One in four small shops on that street is run by an immigrant family who arrived within the last decade.

    Business

  • Economists find that an immigrant workforce tends to fill jobs locals have left, rather than replacing them outright.

    Economics

  • The candidate's grandfather was an immigrant from Sicily, a fact she mentioned in every stump speech that autumn.

    Politics

  • Half the songs on the album are about the singer's mother, an immigrant who cleaned offices to pay for piano lessons.

    Music

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