oldcomers

Noun

oldcomer (plural oldcomers)

1. An immigrant or the descendant of immigrants who has lived in their new environment long enough to become well-established.
   • For instance, if a newcomer in any neighbourhood called first on an oldcomer, the act was classed with burglaries: nobody ever did call thus on an older resident, but, if anyone had, that is how it would have been looked on.1940, Lord Dunsany, Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey, page 111
2. One who has been acquainted with something for a long time; an established member of a group who is familiar with the group culture and resources.
   • If not, if you are not going to protect the business that has earned some by competition, then there is going to be no protection for anyone at any time, unless you are going to shoot craps for all licenses, not even a newcomer who wants to become an "oldcomer."1948, United States. Congress. Senate. Small Business Enterprises, Problems of American Small Business, page 3388
3. A member of a therapeutic community who has achieved a trusted status and is assigned as a mentor to a newcomer.
   • An oldcomer must supervise a first phaser in the host home—if a kid just wants to pick up a pen, he has to ask permission from an oldcomer—and the kids must call the parents of the host home "Mom" and "Dad" as if they are part of a new family.1990, Arnold S. Trebach, Kevin B. Zeese, Drug Prohibition and the Conscience of Nations, page 171