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Definition of Foreign-born
1. Adjective. Of persons born in another area or country than that lived in. "Our large nonnative population"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreign-born
Literary usage of Foreign-born
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Population Profile of the U.S., 1997 by Andrea Curry, Karen Mills, Janice Valdisera (2000)
"The Foreign- Born Population Almost 1 in 10 people in the United States is ...
During this century, the proportion who were foreign born declined from a ..."
2. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1916)
"b) Schooling of foreign-born parents.—Out of the total number of homes, 318, had
foreign-born parents and 35, one foreign-born and one native-born (Table ..."
3. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"could not be determined the same as among those that could be classified according
to nativity, the number of foreign born poor persons relieved in the ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"She gave instruction in the method of approach, getting acquainted, organizing,
and teaching classes of foreign-born people. At the last session of the ..."
5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"from the native and from the foreign- born. After this correction has been made,
the fecundity of the foreign-born was found to be a little more than twice ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"Of this population nearly 5000000 were negroes, about 5500000 foreign-born, and
about 5000000 native-born of foreign parents. ..."
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