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Definition

leave a country of residence to move to another country

Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period

emigrate = leave a country of residence to move to another country

I told him,—of emigration, and the means of it,—of steamboats, and railroads, and...
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country

emigration = the leaving of a country or region to move to another

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence

emigration = leaving a country of residence to move to another country

It is on record that three times nearly all the inhabitants have been obliged to emigrate to the south.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
He wanted me to subscribe to a fund for relieving the poor at the east end of London by assisting them to emigrate.
Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
If we had only had the money to emigrate, he would have married me long since.
Collins, Wilkie -- No Name
Why don't you emigrate, Denham?
Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
Gitl and Yitzchak had emigrated to Israel, where they lived, close friends, until well into their seventies.
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
Micawber, I wonder you have never turned your thoughts to emigration.'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

That Tartuffe has emigrated to England and opened a shop.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
Since Aunt Ruth, the midwife, was forced to retire, the black women had to emigrate to the city to deliver their infants.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
Eventually your family emigrated to North America and got involved with Camp Jupiter—".
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
Truly, a decree for selling the property of emigrants.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
She listened, as if she were an emigrant hearing her homeland's language for a brief while.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
The shooter was a recent emigrant from Greece who had been celebrating a Greek soccer victory when he'd fired his gun at the floor.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
In the next act Newman met him in the lobby and asked him if he had reflected upon possible emigration.
Henry James -- The American

A lot of them emigrated, if you canbelieve the news.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
It was a mercy he didn't emigrate.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

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