foreign-born

[ fawr-in-bawrn, for- ]

adjective

1. born in a country other than that in which one resides.

Word History and Origins

Origin of foreign-born¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

Foreign-born residents made up 12.9 percent of the total U.S. population in 2010.

From The Daily Beast

The foreign-born population of the United States is nearly twice as likely as the native-born to be poor.

From The Daily Beast

More than one-fourth of the pre-Obamacare uninsured were foreign-born.

From The Daily Beast

On the eve of the 2008 recession, the uninsured were 27 percent foreign born.

From The Daily Beast

The immigration bill the Senate passed would let tech companies bring in more foreign-born specialists on temporary work visas.

From The Daily Beast

For the native students of foreign fathers the ratio is four to one, and for the foreign-born eight to one.

From Project Gutenberg

Where the new foreign-born are numerous, women and children frequent the saloons as freely as the men.

From Project Gutenberg

In the cities family desertion is growing at a great rate among foreign-born husbands.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus the innocent foreign-born readers are led like sheep to the shambles, and Privilege gains another intrenching-tool.

From Project Gutenberg

I have seen gatherings of the foreign-born in which narrow and sloping foreheads were the rule.

From Project Gutenberg