transmigrant: Meaning and Definition of

trans•mi•grant

Pronunciation: (trans-mī'grunt, tranz-), [key]
— n.
  1. a person or thing that transmigrates.
  2. a person passing through a country or place on the way to another place in which he or she intends to settle.
—adj.
  1. passing from one place or state to another.
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