n. 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.
n. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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.
n. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Removal from one country or region to another for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or from one section of the United States to another.
n. A body of emigrants: as, the Irish emigration.
n. A going beyond or out of the accustomed place.
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n. migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
Word Usage
"They insist that the division of benefits and burders that results from a regime of individual employment contracts on a free market under conditions of free trade and free migration, both immigration and emigration, is legitimate."