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emigration
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Wikipedia
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Emigration is the act of leaving one's resident country with the intent to settle elsewhere. Conversely, immigration describes the movement of persons into one country from another. Both are acts of migration across national boundaries. Demographers examine ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of emigrate; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence. 2 A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) [syn: out-migration , expatriation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emigration \Em`i*gra"tion\, n. [L. emigratio: cf. F. The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western. A body emigrants; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Late Latin emigrationem (nominative emigratio ) "removal from a place," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin emigrare "move away, depart from a place," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex- ) + migrare "to move" (see migration ...
Usage examples of emigration.
When the return of famine severely admonished them of the importance of the arts, the national distress was sometimes alleviated by the emigration of a third, perhaps, or a fourth part of their youth.
Handsel Van Deef, my captain of guards who will supervise human emigration.
I present Handsel Van Deef, your Captain of Guards for New Chatterford and Master of Emigration.
Sophie Peterson, this is Handsel Van Deef, my new Chief of Emigration.
The colonists, moreover, were encouraged in their spirit of resistance by the emigration of numbers who had lately left England, and who being disaffected persons, diffused republican sentiments in all the provinces.
The alien intelligence called the Children of Gol Goth had been unrecognizable to the First Emigration until it began to speak through the mouths of human dead.
For thirty years Gorges continued to push exploration and emigration to that region, but his ambition and liberality ever resulted in disappointment and loss.
In order to prevent their emigration, the Government had granted them the freedom of Venice.
The Mussulman era begins with the Hijrah, or emigration of Muhammad from Mecca to Madinah, which is supposed to have taken place on the 20th of June, A.
And in the last days of summer, 1911, two families from Ottumwa reported to the station for the journey west: Earl and Alice Grebe and a crafty older pair already familiar with emigration, Magnes and Vesta Volkema, accompanied by their two teen-age children.
The millwrights and other trades were offering a premium on emigration, to induce their hands to go away.
At the courtyard entrance, under the eyes of SS men, Transport Commission Jews at raw lumber tables are officiously checking in the transportees-asking questions, calling out names and numbers, slamming papers with rubber stamps, all with the worn-down irritability of emigration inspectors at any border.
In the future the influx will only be births, the outflux only emigration to Joy Hall.
If so many successive generations of Goths were capable of preserving a faint tradition of their Scandinavian origin, we must not expect, from such unlettered barbarians, any distinct account of the time and circumstances of their emigration.
The mass emigrations, the great internal tumults, the religious and tribal wars of the 1990s have given way to a universal anomie which leaves crops unsown and unharvested, animals neglected, starvation, civil war, the grabbing from the weak by the strong.