emigration Definition
emi·gra·tion (em′i grā′s̸hən)
noun
- the act of emigrating
- emigrants collectively
Etymology: LL emigratio
emigration Synonyms
emigration
n.
Antonyms
emigration Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- child: Mainly policy and correspondence files relating to the emigration of children under the Children Act, 1908, ch.
- people: Between 1861 and 1950 there was a mass of emigration of 21 million people who settled in the United States, Australia and Europe.
Converse of object
- assist: In such instances of assisted emigration, the parish usually provided any necessary shoes and clothing.
- encourage: In 1844 the Swiss government began to encourage emigration to the United States.
- force: Some landlords resorted to forced emigration of their tenants in an effort to'solve ' the problem in Ireland.
- stimulate: The failed German revolution in 1848 stimulated emigration to America.
Adjective modifier
- large-scale: Large-scale emigration of Cornish miners to new mining fields overseas begins 1876.
- Irish: Maya was the only student to think about Irish emigration.
- Jewish: The second major change in German policy was the ban on Jewish emigration overseas.
- net: For example, net emigration from Scotland in recent years has been much lower than in the 1960s or even the 1980s.
- Russian: They had all settled in Paris - the ' second ' center of Russian emigration at that time.
- mass: Leave aside the mass emigration of the famine years.
Modifies a noun
- agent: The Governor-General appointed emigration agents who were responsible for selecting the ships.
- trade: This article seeks to highlight a further aspect, the emigration trade, by focusing on the specific case of mid-nineteenth-century Cornwall.
- scheme: Extended families followed later in assisted emigration schemes, which continued right up the 1960's.
- study: Also receiving a degree at the university last week was free-lance journalist and writer Hugh Dan MacLennan who completed his phd on emigration studies.
- record: Emigration records emigrate Do not expect to find centrally or locally held records of emigrants in Scotland itself.
- policy: He argued that there was no extermination policy toward the Jews, only an emigration policy.
Noun used with modifier

