Meaning of ten pound pom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An assisted immigrant to Australia or New Zealand from Britain, from the decades following World War II.
   Australia, New-Zealand
2. Synonym of ten pound tourist.

Examples

“Under the slogan “Populate or Perish”, the government reintroduced assisted passages from Britain - the “ten-pound-poms” - also accepting substantial numbers of European refugees.”

“She was able to overcome⟳ the hurdles of the Immigration Department because she had actually been born in Adelaide five years before, the child of ‘ten pound Poms’ who were now re-returning to Australia.”

“2008, Timothy Darvill, “Jones, Rhys Maengwyn (1941-2001)", entry in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, 2nd Edition, unnumbered page, On graduating he became one of the last⟳ ‘ten-pound poms′ by migrating to Australia under a scheme where the individual paid £10 and the Australian government paid the rest⟳ of the fare for a one-way journey.”

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