anti-immigrant

See also: antiimmigrant

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From anti- +‎ immigrant.

Adjective

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

  1. (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

References

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

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