All 4 Uses of
immigrate
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The child of poor Polish immigrants, she had been ambitious, worked days in a sweatshop and gone to school at night.†
Chpt 18 *immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- They could not be bulldozed and exploited as could the immigrants and the second-generation Americans.†
Chpt 23
- Here lived the big-time politicians, the monied brewery families, the well-to-do immigrants who had been able to come over first-class instead of steerage.†
Chpt 25
- The frightened mother, thinking Sissy was from the immigration department, let her in.†
Chpt 34immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
Definitions:
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(1)
(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.