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migrant worker

/mahy-gruhnt/US // ˈmaɪ grənt //

移徙工人,移民工人,农民工,民工

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : migrating, especially of people; migratory.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or animal that migrates.
    • : a person who attempts to permanently relocate to a new country, but who may be subject to removal by the government of that country: undocumented migrants;unaccompanied child migrants.Compare immigrant.
    • : Also called migrant worker. a person who moves from place to place to get work, especially a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.

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Examples

  • Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

  • He expected European capitalism to evolve spontaneously into a market socialism of worker-owned cooperatives.

  • She is incapable of responding to kindness and enquiry, even very gentle flirting on the part of a co-worker.

  • Wolf concurs that the conceit of the show seems to have everyone but the sex worker in mind.

  • “We thought it must be the children playing some game,” a worker at the school told Reuters.

  • Each seems satisfied with the way his own branch is getting on: Winter is the quicker worker.

  • Not more than one adult worker in ten—so at least it might with confidence be estimated—is employed on necessary things.

  • As he was a great worker all his life, “Busy,” or “ Benjamin Ceased” would significantly express his death-date.

  • A strenuous worker, Mr. Johnstone, like most men who have no hobby, did not long survive his retirement from active business life.

  • No true worker, be he digger, or divine, blends real work with either smoking or drinking.