migration
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mi·gra·tion
(mī-grā′shən)migration
(maɪˈɡreɪʃən)mi•gra•tion
(maɪˈgreɪ ʃən)n.
Migration
the persons, mammals, or birds that take part in migratory movements abroad, collectively.emigration
immigration migrationIf you emigrate, you leave your own country and go to live permanently in another country.
People who emigrate are called emigrants. The act of emigrating is called emigration. However, these words are less frequent than immigrant and immigration.
If you immigrate to a country, you go to live in that country permanently.
However, it is more common to say that someone emigrates from a country than to say that someone immigrates to a country.
People that leave their own country to live in another country are called immigrants.
The process by which people come to live in a country is called immigration.
When people migrate, they temporarily move to another place, usually a city or another country, in order to find work.
This process is called migration.
People who migrate are called migrants or migrant workers.
Noun | 1. | migration - the movement of persons from one country or locality to another emigration, out-migration, expatriation - migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) immigration, in-migration - migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) movement, move, motion - the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" gold rush - a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
2. | migration - a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" | |
3. | migration - (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule event - something that happens at a given place and time chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | |
4. | migration - the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding periodic event, recurrent event - an event that recurs at intervals |