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immigration

immigration

627 3.0
People moving to another country to live there permanently
  • noun
  • /ˌɪmɪˈɡreɪʃən/
translation icon : inmigración
  • For recently arrived refugees, the risk of additional lead exposure after immigration may also be substantial.
  • immigration status
  • illegal immigration
  • immigration policy

The theme of this conference, immigration and gender, is vast.

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Examples

  • After years of waiting, her immigration application was finally approved, allowing her to start a new life in America.

  • The theme of this conference, immigration and gender, is vast.

  • What is the current state of immigration in the US?

  • And I think that goes for our immigration rates right now as well.

  • Well, it's because our legal immigration system is a failure.

  • We have the worst immigration laws in the entire world.

  • I think immigration played a big part in it.

  • So we have to keep immigration legitimate in Australia.

  • Dozens were held in prolonged US immigration detention for one to three years.

  • She's the director of the AFL-CIO Immigration Community Action.

Synonyms

in-migration
vsimmigration
  • Specialized
1 6.3

Movement of people into a place to live there for a long time

refers to the act and to the people who settle in a new country

Antonyms

13 4.5

Leaving a country to live abroad permanently

Compounds

A former United States government office that handled immigration and becoming a citizen

How Large

influx
59 4.1
immigration
627 3.0
migration
82 3.7

Surface Forms

immigration singular
immigrations plural

Morphology

immigration = immigrate (transparent) = im + migrate + ion

The noun is a regular -ion nominalization of the verb 'immigrate', a standard and productive formation.

Etymology

Immigration comes from the parts in- 'into' and migrāre 'to move', so it means 'moving into' a place. That's why immigration describes the process of people coming to live permanently in a country that is not their own.