Lexic.us

Definition of Emigration

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

Definition of Emigration

1. n. 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.

Definition of Emigration

1. Noun. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence. ¹

2. Noun. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Emigration

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Emigration

1. The passage of white blood cells through the endothelium and wall of small blood vessels. Origin: L. E-migro, pp. -atus, to emigrate (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emigration

Literary usage of Emigration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"A short time before the war the problem of emigration became very serious in ... At that time emigration was greatly stimulated by the economic crisis, ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Emigrant« *n tue returns of emigration issued by the from Ene- Government, no distinction of nationalities was Und and made previous to the year 1853 ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"NATURAL emigration. Is our population to go on increasing at its present rate till ... Does the amount of emigration make any appreciable or considerable ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"PROSPECTS OF emigration. The emigration to this port in January was ... Comparisons between the emigration for corresponding months in different years, ..."

5. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"A comparison of the last two tables further shows that the decrease of the average rural emigration from 1881-1890 to 1901-1907 is approximately equal to ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"It was an emigration such as the modern world had not before known. Population, held down in ... Restrictions on emigration f / failed or were swept aside. ..."

7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1870)
"emigration IN A NEW PHASE. time since it was proposed, in the Clearing House Association, to establish an organization for ats>rting and forwarding not-s ..."

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