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Definition: Foreign-born |
Foreign-bornAdjective1. Of persons born in another area or country than that lived in; "our large nonnative population". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Census | (See Native born). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Foreign-bornSynonym: nonnative (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: foreign born population (statistics). |
Crosswords: Foreign-born |
| English words defined with "foreign-born": American Party. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "foreign-born": Derivative Citizenship ♦ People who indicate that they were born in the United States, Puerto Rico, a U.S. Island Area, or abroad of a U.S. citizen parent ♦ TEACHER, ADULT EDUCATION. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Iraq | The Government prevents many citizens who also hold citizenship in another country, especially the children of Iraqi fathers and foreign-born mothers, from visiting the country of their other nationality. (references) |
Economic History | Bermuda | Of the total 1991 population, about 73% were born in Bermuda and 27% were foreign-born. (references) |
Australia | From 1945 through 1996, nearly 5.5 million immigrants settled in Australia, and about 80% have remained; nearly one of every four Australians is foreign-born. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kuwait | The law forbids marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men and requires men to obtain government approval to marry foreign-born women. (references) |
Grenada | With the exception of persons charged with murder and foreign-born drug suspects, the courts grant most defendants bail while awaiting trial. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kuwait | Men must obtain government approval to marry foreign-born women. (references) |
Women | Kuwait | Foreign-born domestic employees have the right to sue their employers for abuse, but few do so fearing judicial bias and deportation. (references) |
Bahamas | The Constitution discriminates against women by not providing them with the same right as men to transmit citizenship to their foreign-born spouses. (references) | |
Kuwait | The law also requires women to pay residence fees for their husbands and does not recognize marriage as the basis for granting residency to foreign-born husbands. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Marshall Islands | There are no specific laws concerning trafficking in persons; however, there is increasing suspicion that foreign-born Marshallese passport holders may be using the country as a staging point for trafficking. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Foreign-born" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Foreign-born" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "foreign-born"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | sinh ở nước ngo i. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alienigena, alienigenae, alienigenam, alienigenarum, alienigenas, alienigenis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-g-i-n-n-o-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: reroofing. | |
-3 letters: enrobing, forborne, reboring, ringbone. | |
-4 letters: bonfire, bonnier, bringer, forbore, foreign, forgoer, forgone, goofier, grinner, ignorer, inferno, ionogen, negroni, roofing. | |
-5 letters: benign, binger, biogen, bonier, boning, bonnie, booger, boogie, booing, boring, briner, eringo, erring, finger, forego, forger, fringe, ginner, gonion, goober, gooier, goonie, gorier, ignore, inborn, ionone, ironer, nonego, orbier, orbing, orgone, reborn. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6F 72 65 69 67 6E 2D 62 6F 72 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101110 00101101 01100010 01101111 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F o r e i g n - b o r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006F 0072 0065 0069 0067 006E 002D 0062 006F 0072 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408184717573801568818480 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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