migrant worker
English
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Noun
[edit]migrant worker (plural migrant workers)
- An agricultural labourer who travels from place to place harvesting seasonal crops.
- A person with temporary permission to work in another country; a guest worker.
- 2021 September 8, Howard Johnston, “HS2 jobs boost - but skills shortage a concern”, in RAIL, number 939, page 17:
- And since Brexit, the number of migrant workers has fallen by almost a third, with new immigration laws and the points-based system possibly reducing the flow even further.
Translations
[edit]agricultural worker
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guest worker — see guest worker
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “migrant worker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.