migrant laborer

  • 1migrant laborer — Migrant Mi grant, n. 1. A migratory bird, person, or other animal. 2. A person who changes residence frequently in search of employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting crops seasonally; also called {migrant laborer} or {migrant worker} …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2migrant laborer — A laborer who travels from place to place, often with the seasons, for work, usually connected with the farm, particularly the cultivation and gathering of vegetables and the harvesting of fruit crops …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 3Migrant — Mi grant, n. 1. A migratory bird, person, or other animal. 2. A person who changes residence frequently in search of employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting crops seasonally; also called {migrant laborer} or {migrant worker}.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4migrant worker — Migrant Mi grant, n. 1. A migratory bird, person, or other animal. 2. A person who changes residence frequently in search of employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting crops seasonally; also called {migrant laborer} or {migrant worker} …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 5Migrant worker — Migrant workers in California, 1935 Legal status of persons Concepts …

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  • 6laborer — [n] worker blue collar worker, drudge, farmhand, grunt, hand, hireling, manual worker, migrant worker, peon, unskilled worker, working man/woman, working stiff*; concept 348 …

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  • 7migrant — [mī′grənt] adj. [L migrans, prp. of migrare] migrating; migratory n. 1. a person, bird, or animal that migrates ☆ 2. a farm laborer who moves from place to place to harvest seasonal crops …

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  • 8migrant — Synonyms and related words: DP, avifauna, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, blue collar worker, breadwinner, cage bird, casual, casual laborer,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 9migrant — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ economic ▪ illegal, undocumented (esp. AmE) ▪ rural ▪ first generation, second generation MIGRANT + NO …

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  • 10migrant — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Traveler] Syn. wanderer, wayfarer, journeyer, globe trotter, vagabond, hobo, vagrant, transient. 2. [Temporary laborer] Syn. migrant worker, day laborer, itinerant worker, migratory worker. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n.… …

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