emigration
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- noun
- /ˌɛmɪˈɡreɪʃən/
- There was a great deal of unemployment and sustained emigration of Eritrean labor to neighboring countries.
- massive emigration
- voluntary emigration
- emigration restrictions
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- Despite growing evidence of the Nazi sinister aims, Stern is under the impression that the Nazis want to make their land udine free of Jews through emigration.
Examples
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I know well enough about the place and the circumstances of your emigration, but you know nothing about mine.
Fiction book (1999) -
Dino Cinel has worked on emigration and return migration from Italy to the United States.
Academic text (1999) -
There is a lot of evidence that points to the fact that trade and emigration are complementary.
Academic text (1999) -
Finally, there is the question of the emigration of Soviet and East European Jews to occupied Palestine.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, far from increasing emigration, the Jackson amendment in fact wound up substantially reducing it.
Academic text (1991) -
Of equal importance are emigration trends of the Arab population that began long before the 1967 Six-Day War.
Academic text (2013) -
The general pattern has been one of emigration from poor, stagnant areas to richer and more dynamic ones.
Academic text (2008) -
More significantly, he saw the European emigration to the Americas as a direct continuation of its European foundations.
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After four months of preparation, state security agents Amarylis Silverio and Joseph Santos ride the third wave of emigration to enter the United States.
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Many families chose emigration to find better opportunities abroad.
Synonyms
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Movement of people from one place to another to live there
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People leaving an area to live in another place
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Leaving your home country to live in another
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A movement of people leaving a place to live somewhere else
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Etymology
The word emigration comes from parts that mean 'out' and 'move': the prefix e- means 'out' and the root migr- means 'move', as in migrate and migration. So emigration is the act of 'moving out' of your country to live in another.