plural migrants
: someone or something that migrates: such as
a
: a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops
farms employing migrants during the growing season
b
: immigrant sense a
especially
: refugee
… administration officials announced they would work to swiftly screen migrants seeking asylum at the border … and penalize people who cross illegally into the U.S. or illegally through another country on their way to the U.S. border. —
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c
: an animal (such as a gray whale, monarch butterfly, leatherback sea turtle, or Canada goose) that moves usually long distances from one habitat or geographic region to another
migrant
adjective
migrant labor
migrant birds
Examples of migrant in a Sentence
migrants in search of work on farms
Not all birds are migrants.
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The agency will also revoke employment authorizations for migrants who lose their status.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Trump vowed to remove millions of migrants without legal status, and his government is racing to fulfill his pledge of deporting one million people in a year.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Cornell manages to humanize the migrants risking all to cross the border, the ranchers who see themselves as defenders of the land, and the jurors trying to make sense of it all.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Trump vowed to remove millions of migrants without legal status, and his government is racing to fulfill his pledge of deporting one million people in a year.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Cornell manages to humanize the migrants risking all to cross the border, the ranchers who see themselves as defenders of the land, and the jurors trying to make sense of it all.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
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“Migrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/migrant. Accessed 14 Dec. 2025.
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