anti-immigrant

See also: antiimmigrant

English

Alternative forms

antiimmigrant

Etymology

anti- +‎ immigrant

Adjective

anti-immigrant (comparative more anti-immigrant, superlative most anti-immigrant)

(politics) Opposing immigrants or immigration.

Usage notes

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

opposing immigrants or immigration

Finnish: maahanmuuttokriittinen (fi)
French: anti-immigration (fr)
Portuguese: anti-imigrante, anti-imigrantes
Spanish: antiinmigrante, antinmigrante

References

(antiimmigrant*6),anti-immigrant at Google Ngram Viewer
6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov

Further reading

“anti-immigrant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“anti-immigrant”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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