All 5 Uses
immigrate
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Parrot in the Oven
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- My first thought was to run, but when I saw three more vans and a large labor bus pop out of a narrow road in the cornfield bordering ours, I knew that Immigration had come for the people.†
Chpt 1.immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- I thought he was going to cuss those Immigration guys off, but instead he stood by meekly watching the officers corral the people before loading them into the vans.†
Chpt 1.
- He poured himself some water and glared over at the Immigration officers as they packed in the people and roared off in a boiling cloud of dust.†
Chpt 1. *
- He said Immigration let him go as soon as they saw he had too much meat on his bones to be a wetback.†
Chpt 1.
- They said Immigration guys usually don't go into the fields to check for citizenship unless they have a good reason.†
Chpt 1.
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) Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.