incomer
Americannoun
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a person who comes in.
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Chiefly British. an immigrant.
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an intruder.
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a successor.
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Hunting. a duck, pheasant, etc., that flies toward the shooter.
noun
Etymology
Origin of incomer
Example Sentences
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Loeb also hopes to design—in collaboration with space agencies or companies--a launch-ready space mission to study an incomer at close quarters.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 26, 2021
In episode five, the simmering tension between incumbent powerbroker Al and ruthless incomer Hearst – a mining bigwig with designs on Deadwood’s rich seams – exploded on to the main thoroughfare.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2020
In an overwhelmingly conservative state long dominated by the coal and timber industries, Fred Schaufeld wasn’t a typical corporate incomer.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2020
Back at the social club is another recent incomer to Jaywick, Margaret Johnston.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2019
And it was definitely not what I ever imagined would happen to Finn—the incomer boy, not me—when he found himself alone on the planet of humans and dogs at the end of my father’s novel.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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