transmigrant

transmigrant
/trans muy"greuhnt, tranz-/, n.
1. a person or thing that transmigrates.
2. a person passing through a country or place on the way to another place in which he or she intends to settle.
adj.
3. passing from one place or state to another.
[1665-75; < L transmigrant- (s. of transmigrans), prp. of transmigrare to depart, migrate. See TRANS-, MIGRANT]

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