EMIGRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emigration mean? 

• EMIGRATION (noun)
  The noun EMIGRATION has 1 sense:

1. migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

  Familiarity information: EMIGRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMIGRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emigration; expatriation; out-migration

Hypernyms ("emigration" is a kind of...):

migration (the movement of persons from one country or locality to another)

Derivation:

emigrate (leave one's country of residence for a new one)

 Context examples 

Deletion of the CD18 gene in mice produces a significant reduction in leukocyte emigration to sites of inflammation.

(Neutrophil Surface Molecule Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

My aunt mused a little while, and then said: Mr. Micawber, I wonder you have never turned your thoughts to emigration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Pray, have you thought about that emigration proposal of mine?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“We have been discussing your emigration, with many apologies to you for keeping you out of the room so long; and I'll tell you what arrangements we propose.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)