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foreigner

/ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/ noun A1
  1. A person from a foreign country.
  2. A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.

Plural foreigners

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After alluding airily to the Vehmgericht, aqua tofana, Carbonari, the Marchioness de Brinvilliers, the Darwinian theory, the principles of Malthus, and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the Government and advocating a closer watch over foreigners in England.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 55 · B2
If the case has had no other effect, it, at least, brings out in the most striking manner the efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 86 · B2
Until the foreigners had invented that for themselves they could not make the boat.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 23 · B2
She is a foreigner—a stranger.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 375 · C1

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