Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
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Examples
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But she also enjoys being compared to the late cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein, the Polish emigree whose motto was: "There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
Cosmetics company chief Dr Irena Eris revels in vanity project 2011
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The main character is a Russian emigree who was recruited to spy on the Russian mob.
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Even more surprising that she had been a Russian emigree living in Paris when war broke out and had been recruited to the British Secret Service.
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Even more surprising that she had been a Russian emigree living in Paris when war broke out and had been recruited to the British Secret Service.
Restless 2007
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Or will NBC rip it off and cast Eddie Izzard as the emigree?
David Cross Creates UK Television Comedy With Spike Jonze and Will Arnett | /Film 2009
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And there is very little by way of independent journalism within Burma -- we are dependent on emigree services that do their best to provide some of the news from the periphery.
Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009
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Even more surprising that she had been a Russian emigree living in Paris when war broke out and had been recruited to the British Secret Service.
Restless 2007
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And there is very little by way of independent journalism within Burma -- we are dependent on emigree services that do their best to provide some of the news from the periphery.
Opaque Burma Daniel Little 2009
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A worthy old marquise, an emigree and ruined, who had but a solitary maid, continued to say: “My people.”
Les Miserables 2008
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I feel compelled to respond to an article written in part about me by emigree contributor Erica Jong.
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