outcomer

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outcomer (plural outcomers)

In China, a person who comes from another place; an outsider.
- 2014, Sihua Liang, Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China, page 157:
  It is possible that the close-knit network of “the locals” has also had an effect on the “outcomers”.
- 2022, Spatial Literary Studies in China, page 232:
  Consequently, most of the young outcomers in the modern novels finally return to the traditional rural space after having experienced a wonderful yet perilous journey in the metropolitan concessions of Shanghai.