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incomer

American  
[in-kuhm-er] / ˈɪnˌkʌm ər /

noun

  1. a person who comes in.

  2. Chiefly British. an immigrant.

  3. an intruder.

  4. a successor.

  5. Hunting. a duck, pheasant, etc., that flies toward the shooter.


incomer British  
/ ˈɪnkʌmə /

noun

  1. a person who comes to live in a place in which he was not born

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of incomer

First recorded in 1520–30; in + comer


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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 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

Mark Fisher, a former student of hers at Birmingham, was another incomer.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2017

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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