foreign-born

adjective

for·​eign-born ˌfȯr-ən-ˈbȯrn How to pronounce foreign-born (audio)
ˌfär-
: foreign by birth

Examples of foreign-born in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nearly a quarter of construction workers in 2022 were foreign-born, a historic high, according to NAHB, citing US Census data. Tami Luhby, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024 The church, whose congregation is about 50% white, 25% Black and 25% foreign-born, changed its name to People's Church in 2012 to reflect its racial diversity, including 30-plus nationalities worshiping and working there, according to its website. Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024 The union’s members are nearly all Hispanic and foreign-born, according to the union. Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024 The foreign-born now make up 18.6 percent of the labor force, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that over the next 10 years, immigration will keep the number of working Americans from sinking. Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024 So in 1910, the United States percentage of foreign-born was 14.7%. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024 Myers: The majority of our fans are located outside the U.S., and 25% of our players are foreign-born. Josh Glicksman, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024 More than 37 percent of meat and poultry workers are foreign-born, according to estimates by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024 Nearly 29 percent of the city’s population is foreign-born, which exceeds local, state and national averages, according to census data. Erin Cox, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1692, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of foreign-born was in 1692

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“Foreign-born.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign-born. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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