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Migration out of a place
Answer for the clue "Migration out of a place ", 11 letters:
immigration
Word definitions for immigration in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from immigrate + -ion . As short for "immigration authorities," from 1966.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of immigrate; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES United States Citizenship and Immigration Services COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE anti ▪ But it is wrong to cite anti-immigration feelings as the main explanation for the rise of the Progress party. federal ▪ Even ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) [syn: in-migration ] the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immigration \Im"mi*gra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. immigration.] The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. --T. Warton.
Usage examples of immigration.
An immigration officer had recognized her and, while unable to remember her surname, he recalled she had arrived on the first Aer Lingus flight from Dublin on Monday 15th March and was travelling on a French passport.
Of this Jewish immigration, approximately 80 percent were Ashkenazi Jews.
Mexican television in America broadcasts not dry notices of immigration reform or Mexican consulate seminars, but splashy Jerry Springer-like talk shows, where Chicanas with dyed blond hair, breast implants and bare navels wiggle in the audience and chatter in hot tubs, unlike anything that used to be aired in the village plaza in Mexico.
However, there were friendly working arrangements with the Eagle Republicans, and so Christophine Buckley had obtained the Immigration job, which had special glitter because it was a federal appointment.
Among the twelve thousand natives of India who have been attracted to Singapore, and among all the mingled foreign nationalities, the Klings from the Coromandel coast, besides being the most numerous of all next to the Chinese, are the most attractive in appearance, and as there is no check on the immigration of their women, one sees the unveiled Kling beauties in great numbers.
The co-pilot had radioed ahead so that when she parked in the private hangar there were a uniformed immigration poficier and a douanier already waiting.
Races other than the Turkish, whose immigration in 1914 was more than one-third illiterate, include the Dalmatians, Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Russians, Ruthenians, Italians, Lithuanians, and Roumanians.
Program planners have set a goal of collecting information, confirming identity, providing information about foreign nationals throughout the entire immigration system, and ultimately enabling each point in the system to assess the lawfulness of travel and any security risks.
Liberals view their own noncompliance with immigration laws as a sort of friendly-neighbor program.
Zimmerman a nonquota immigration visa, to which she is entitled as the next of kin to an American citizen.
He phoned Immigration Canada and had them fax Immigration records on both the victim, Petar Mestrovic, and their suspect, Emin Selmanaj.
Most new genes that arise, either by mutation or reassortment or immigration, are quickly penalized by natural selection: the evolutionarily stable set is restored.
She smiled brilliantly at the dark-skinned Seychellois immigration officer as she slid the green United States passport with its golden eagle across the desk to him, but when she turned to her male companion she spoke in quick fluent German.
You know what them sods at Immigration are like, so I thought it best to get ahead of the game and take it seriously.
As the solemn ritual began, the immigration man asked each of the applicants routine questions about the Constitution and the President, then certified them as having completed satisfactorily their course of prescribed study.