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English Dictionary: Emigration by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emigration
n
  1. migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
    Synonym(s): emigration, out-migration, expatriation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emigration \Em`i*gra"tion\, n. [L. emigratio: cf. F.
      [82]migration.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German
            emigration.
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