[N-COUNT 可数名词](外来)移民；侨民 An immigrant is a person who has come to live in a country from some other country.
...illegal immigrants.
非法移民
...immigrant visas.
移民签证
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im·mi·grantAWL/ˈɪmɪɡrənt; NAmEˈɪmɪɡrənt/nouna person who has come to live permanently in a country that is not their own （外来）移民；外侨◆immigrant communities/families/workers侨民社区╱家庭╱劳工◆illegal immigrants非法移民☞collocationsat
someone who enters another country to live there permanently → emigrant: an illegal immigrant a new wave of immigrants from the Middle EastCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesan illegal immigrant· Large numbers of illegal immigrants have found their way into the country.a legal immigrant· Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada.a recent immigrant· The majority of workers at the factory are recent immigrants.European/African etc immigrants· There has been a recent increase in the number of African immigrants.a first-generation immigrant (=someone who is an immigrant, or whose parents were immigrants)· Her parents were first-generation immigrants from Poland.a second-generation immigrant (=someone whose parents or grandparents were immigrants)· These boys are second-generation immigrants who grew up speaking English.phrasesa wave/influx of immigrants (=a large number of them)· A new wave of immigrants arrived in the 1950s.a flood of immigrants (=a very large number of immigrants that arrive at the same time)· He suggested the country would experience a flood of immigrants.immigrant + NOUNan immigrant family· A quarter of the school’s students are from immigrant families.immigrant workers· Many immigrant workers had to live in deprived areas.an immigrant community· There are shops catering for the various immigrant communities.the immigrant population· The immigrant population increased rapidly during the 1970s.
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