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Immigrating

Immigrate \Im"mi*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immigrating.] [L. immigrare, immigratum, to immigrate; pref. im- in + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.] To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

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immigrating

vb. (present participle of immigrate English)

Usage examples of "immigrating".

But certain influential Council members, himself included, had argued that the stronger immigrating males, who had little chance of having a Kaeleer-born woman for a lover, needed some way to relieve their sexual tension.

This mob of ragged vagabonds that's immigrating to Zarathustra is ruining what little grace we had developed in Mallorysport.

His father, a gentle, brilliant man who had been a medical student in Tel Aviv until, in his third year, the authorities deemed him better suited to the life of a pharmacist to make room for an immigrating Jew in the medical college.

The last bit of business that they had set in motion was to put an end to the Chinese Exclusion Act, which earlier administrations had used to keep the Chinese from immigrating to the United States.

It might have been akin, I thought, to sending for relatives after immigrating to the United States during the nineteenth century.