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em·i·grate
(ĕm′ĭ-grāt′)intr.v. em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing, em·i·grates
To leave one country or region to settle in another. See Usage Note at migrate.
em′i·gra′tion (ĕm′ĭ-grā′shən) n.
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emigration
(ˌɛmɪˈɡreɪʃən)n
1. (Sociology) the act or an instance of emigrating
2. (Sociology) emigrants considered collectively
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Emigration
emigrants collectively, 1863.Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
emigration
– immigration – migration1. 'emigrate', 'emigration', 'emigrant'
If you emigrate, you leave your own country and go to live permanently in another country.
He received permission to emigrate to Canada.
He had emigrated from Germany in the early 1920's.
People who emigrate are called emigrants. The act of emigrating is called emigration. However, these words are less frequent than immigrant and immigration.
2. 'immigrate', 'immigration', 'immigrant'
If you immigrate to a country, you go to live in that country permanently.
They immigrated to Israel.
However, it is more common to say that someone emigrates from a country than to say that someone immigrates to a country.
People that leave their own country to live in another country are called immigrants.
The company employs several immigrants.
The process by which people come to live in a country is called immigration.
The government has changed its immigration policy.
3. 'migrate', 'migration', 'migrant'
When people migrate, they temporarily move to another place, usually a city or another country, in order to find work.
The only solution people can see is to migrate.
Millions have migrated to the cities.
This process is called migration.
New jobs are encouraging migration from the cities of the north.
People who migrate are called migrants or migrant workers.
She was a migrant looking for a place to live.
In South America there are three million migrant workers.
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| Noun | 1. |  emigration - migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)migration - the movement of persons from one country or locality to another |
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emigration
noun departure, removal, migration, exodus, relocation, resettlement the huge emigration of workers to the West
Quotations
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time" [John Berger And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos]
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time" [John Berger And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos]
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emigration
nounDeparture from one's native land to settle in another:
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Translations
هِجْرَه
emigrationudvandring
flutningur úr landi
emigrácia
izseljevanje
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emigration
n → Auswanderung f; (esp for political reasons) → Emigration f
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emigrate
(ˈemigreit) verb to leave one's country and settle in another. Many doctors have emigrated from Britain to America.
ˈemigrant noun, adjective (a person) emigrating or having emigrated. The numbers of emigrants are increasing; emigrant doctors.
ˌemiˈgration nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
em·i·gra·tion
n. emigración o migración, escape tal como el de leucocitos a través de las paredes de los capilares y las venas.
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