migrant worker

migrant worker (plural migrant workers)

1. An agricultural labourer who travels from place to place harvesting seasonal crops.
2. A person with temporary permission to work in another country; a guest worker.
   • 2021 September 8, Howard Johnston, “HS2 jobs boost - but skills shortage a concern”, in RAIL, number 939, page 17:

     And since Brexit, the number of migrant workers has fallen by almost a third, with new immigration laws and the points-based system possibly reducing the flow even further.

• seasonal worker

• “migrant worker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.