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year-rounder noun[ C ] mainly USuk /ˌjɪəˈraʊn.dər/ us /ˌjɪrˈraʊn.dɚ/ a person who lives in a place for the whole year: 常年住户 Many year-rounders contemplate the summer with horror, when the population exceeds 100,000, the traffic is maddening and beach access obstructed.许多常年居住在这里的人想到夏天就觉得糟心,因为夏天这里的人超过10万,交通令人抓狂,去往海滩的路也拥挤不通。 Like many year-rounders, during the height of the season, they rent out their house. The ferry costs $22 for a peak round-trip ticket (year-rounders ride for half-price). The year-rounders number about 15,000, and many of these people are the island's aristocrats, "land-rich and money-poor", as one of them once told me. Matt is a year-rounder who runs a successful bread bakery and takeaway. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases People who live or settle somewhere asylum seeker boarder brain drain city slicker co-resident frontiersman Georgian guest worker habitant illegal alien lodger occupier Orcadian outflow overspill repeople squatter troglodyte villager welcome wagon |