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ten-pound tourist

ten-pound tourist is the alternative form of ten pound tourist.

Meaning of ten pound tourist

Noun

ten pound tourist (plural ten pound tourists)

  1. (Australia, UK) An assisted immigrant to Australia from Britain, from the decades following World War II.
    • In 1971 my own (Anglo-Celtic) parents traveled from the “Mother country” (the United Kingdom) as assisted immigrants, among the last of the “ten-pound tourists.” My brother and I traveled free (see Appleyard et al. 1988).2003, Ian Maxwell, Notes: Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes: Hip Hop Down Under Comin′ Upper, page 251
    Synonyms:
    ten pound Pom

Forms of ten-pound tourist

pluralten-pound tourists

Questions about ten-pound tourist

What is ten-pound tourist the alternative form of?
Ten-pound tourist is the alternative form of ten pound tourist.

Words near ten-pound tourist in the dictionary

  1. ten-percenter
  2. ten-percenters
  3. ten-pin
  4. ten-pin bowling
  5. ten-pins
  6. ten-pound tourist
  7. ten-pound tourists
  8. ten-pounder
  9. ten-pounders
  10. ten-second car
  11. ten-second cars

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