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native-born Definition

native-born (-bôrn′)

adjective

of a specified place by birth

native-born Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • woman: Children of native-born women with a greater good next choice.
  • American: He and the two mates, are as I learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship.
  • citizen: The Know-Nothing Party was formed by American nativists who wanted to preserve the country for native-born white citizens.
  • worker: We can demand popular election of officers, abolition of all military law, equal rights for foreign and native-born workers... .
  • counterpart: They are more than twice as likely to be hospitalized for mental distress than their native-born counterparts.
  • peer: Many Ethiopians in elementary school achieve results worse than those of their native-born peers.