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Emigration : (noun)
1: migration from a place (especially migration from your
native country in order to settle in another) [syn: out-migration,
expatriation]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Emigration : \Em`i*gra"tion\, n. [L. emigratio: cf. F.
['e]migration.]
1. 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.
2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German
emigration.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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EMIGRATION. The act of removing from one place to another. It is sometimes
used in the same sense as expatriation, (q.v.) but there is some difference
in the signification. Expatriation is the act of abandoning one's country,
whileEmigration : is, perhaps not strictly, applied to the act of removing
from one part of the country to another. Vide 2 Kent, Com. 36.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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