English

Alternative forms

• ten-pound tourist, ten pound Pom, ten pound pom

Noun

ten pound tourist ‎(plural ten pound tourists)

1. (Australia, Britain) An assisted immigrant to Australia from Britain, from the years following World War II.
   • 2003, Ian Maxwell, Notes, Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes: Hip Hop Down Under Comin′ Upper, page 251,

     In 1971 my own (Anglo-Celtic) parents traveled from the “Mother country” (the United Kingdom) as assisted immigrants, among the last of the “ten-pound tourists.” My brother and I traveled free (see Appleyard et al. 1988).

   • 2006, James Knight, Just Doing My Job, unnumbered page,

     Billy′s parents were ‘ten pound tourists’, arriving in Australia in 1962.

   • 2009, Sebastian Balfour, Laurie Howes, Michael De Larrabeiti, Anthony Weale (editors), Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties, page 154,

     I became a ten-pound tourist, and emigrated to Australia. While I was there, I saw nobody from Trinity - apart from John Castle on the silver screen in Melbourne, starring in a film with Katherine Hepburn, which hardly counts. Nearly five years later, to miners′ strikes and the three-day week, I returned, […] .