migrant
US: /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
UK: /mˈaɪɡɹənt/
UK: /mˈaɪɡɹənt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
migrant /'maigrənt/
- tính từ
- di trú
- migrant birds: chim di trú
- di trú
- danh từ
- người di trú
- chim di trú
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work: They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. + migrant workers + The country has a large seasonal migrant population, who work on the coffee and cotton plantations for part of the year.
Compare: EMIGRANT, IMMIGRANT
2 a bird or an animal that moves from one place to another according to the season
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 wanderer, rover, drifter, gypsy, nomad, itinerant, transient, migrator, wayfarer, bird of passage, peregrinator, traveller; vagrant; Colloq US wetback:
The townspeople were having difficulty finding accommodation for the migrants.
adj.
2 transient, migratory, itinerant, peripatetic, drifting, nomadic, travelling, gypsy, floating; vagrant:
The farmers depend on migrant workers to bring in the harvest.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
economic | illegal | rural
MIGRANT + NOUN
labourer, worker
entering the country as migrant workers
| population | bird
PREP.
~ from
migrants from rural areas
| ~ into, ~ to
Migrants to the city send money home to their relatives.
PHRASES
a flow/an influx of migrants
Concise English dictionary
migrants'maɪgrənt
noun
+traveler who moves from one region or country to another
adj.
+habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
