emigration

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Emigration is the leaving of your own country to settle elsewhere. Mass emigration, a wave of emigration, emigration figures.

It is the same movement as immigration seen from the other end, and countries record the two quite separately. Ireland lost more people to emigration than any comparable country in Europe, and the population has still not recovered its level of 1841.

Definitions of emigration

1nounemigrationThe leaving of your own country to settle elsewhere.B2+
“Poverty and famine led to mass emigration from the region in the nineteenth century.”

emigration is a departure.

Where it comes from

Latin emigratio comes from emigrare, to move away, from ex plus migrare.

Built from

e · Latin — out
migrare · Latin — to move, remove, depart

From Latin - stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

emigration in the wild

Fleeing from oppressive conditions, being a refugee and seeking asylum to get refugee status in a foreign country, may lead to permanent emigration.
Emigration
The emigration from Serbia consists of citizens of Serbia or Serbia-born people living outside Serbia and its neighboring countries.
Emigration from Serbia
The emigration affected almost the entirety of the political elite in Congress Poland.
Great Emigration
Yerida is emigration by Jews from the State of Israel (or in religious texts, Land of Israel).
Yerida
The term applies specifically to Jewish emigrants and does not include the emigration of non-Jewish Israeli citizens.
Yerida

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