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green-carder en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of green carder.
   alt of green carder
   • If a commuting citizen or green-carder becomes a resident, he and his resident dependents would become eligible for federal food stamps, state benefits to medical indigents, and county general assistance 1978, Stephen H. Sosnick, Hired hands: seasonal farm workers in the United, page 422:
   • The man with the fighting cock on his shirt was a Union green-carder who did not wish to cross the picket lines. 1971, Peter Matthiessen, Sal si puedes: Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution, page 17:
   • In theory, the green-carder is identical to any other resident immigrant; in fact, this is not the case. 1973, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Chicanos and Rural Poverty, page 36:

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