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ten pound tourists

ten pound tourists is the plural 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

Questions about ten pound tourists

What is ten pound tourists the plural of?
Ten pound tourists is the plural of ten pound tourist.

Words near ten pound tourists in the dictionary

  1. ten points from Gryffindor
  2. ten points to Gryffindor
  3. ten pound pom
  4. ten pound poms
  5. ten pound tourist
  6. ten pound tourists
  7. ten sack
  8. ten sacks
  9. ten thousand
  10. ten thousands
  11. ten to one

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