Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

undocumented immigrant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: un-doc-u-ment-ed im-mi-grant
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

7

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An immigrant who has entered a country (often as a migrant worker) and has no documentation authorizing them to (still) be present there.

Example Sentences

"All the research studies found a very low rate of social service utilization by undocumented immigrants."
"Rulings that ensure from these cases apply to varying degrees to undocumented immigrant students as well as to legal immigrant students."
"However, an accompanied undocumented immigrant child should not be removed from his or her family , unless there are grounds for removal in terms of section 14(4) of the Child Care Act, 1983."
"In the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, ICE agents arrested Walter Valladares, a 53-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, according to family members who spoke with CNN."

Inflected Forms

undocumented immigrants (plural)

Synonyms

undocumented alien unlawful non-citizen illegal alien illegal immigrant illegal crimmigrant

Questions

What does undocumented immigrant mean?: An immigrant who has entered a country (often as a migrant worker) and has no documentation authorizing them to (still) be present there.

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