Immigration
[ɪmɪ'ɡreɪʃn] or [,ɪmɪ'ɡreʃən]
Definition
(noun.) migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there).
(noun.) the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; 'the increased immigration strengthened the colony'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Migration, colonization, settlement
ANT:Emigration, exodus
Edited by Kelsey
Examples
- Like his views on immigration and Chinese labor it was a red herring across his path. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Immigration more than anything else is drawing us into world problems. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And the East is fertilized continually by European traditions: that stream of immigration brings with it a thousand unforeseeable possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An intelligent study of the discovery, explorations, colonization of America, of the pioneer movement westward, of immigration, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Facility of immigration seems to have been fully as important as the nature of the conditions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Typist: Moira