anti-immigrant
See also: antiimmigrant
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]anti-immigrant (comparative more anti-immigrant, superlative most anti-immigrant)
- (politics) Opposing immigrants or immigration.
Usage notes
[edit]- anti-immigrant is several times more common than antiimmigrant in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]
Translations
[edit]opposing immigrants or immigration
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References
[edit]- ^ (antiimmigrant*6),anti-immigrant at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
Further reading
[edit]- “anti-immigrant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “anti-immigrant”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.