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incomer

[ in-kuhm-er ]

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

/ ˈɪ԰ʌə /

noun

  1. a person who comes to live in a place in which he was not born
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of incomer1

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.

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In the Coen brothers’ quirkily and slightly pedantically humorous and Wodehousian romp set in golden-age Hollywood, Fiennes plays the haughty director Laurence Laurentz, who is a European incomer to the US, like Curtiz or Sirk, but with a Britisher’s poise.

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The president has embraced increasing border taxes as part of his trade strategy, but incomer Joe Biden is expected to take a different approach.

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Incomer Ovo recently bought major supplier SSE, and medium-sized players such as Shell-backed First Utility are making inroads.

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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.

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