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Immigration - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Immigration : (noun)
1: migration into a place (especially migration to a country of
which you are not a native in order to settle there)
[syn: in-migration]
2: the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval;
"the increased immigration strengthened the colony"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Immigration : \Im"mi*gra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. immigration.]
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country
for the purpose of permanent residence.
The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. --T.
Warton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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IMMIGRATION. The removing into one place from another. It differs from
emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide
Emigration.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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