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The UK government has turned the word foreigner into such a negative
term it may soon need redefining in the Oxford English Dictionary.
That is the view of Dialogue columnist Karina Robinson, chief executive
of executive search firm Robinson Hambro. She expressed concern in
todays Financial Times with the way the term was used in a pejorative
sense by the UKs governing centre-right Conservative Party at its recent
annual conference.
Robinson is a Spaniardwho has been resident in the UK for more than
two decades.

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As a foreigner I was somewhat mystified to learn the new usage of the

word and to hear it used repeatedly at the Conservative Party
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conference, she wrote in the newspaper.

Oxford English Dictionary will have its

new meaning, something like: Foreigner: new usage, word denoting

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