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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
- We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence
- 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
- A lot of them emigrated, if you canbelieve the news.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- 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
- It was a mercy he didn't emigrate.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
emigration = the leaving of a country or region to move to another
emigration = leaving a country of residence to move to another country