emigration
pronunciation
How to pronounce emigration in British English:
UK [ˌemɪ'ɡreɪʃn]
How to pronounce emigration in American English:
US [ˌɛmɪˈɡreʃən]
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- Noun:
- migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
Word Origin
- emigration (n.)
- 1640s, from Late Latin emigrationem (nominative emigratio) "removal from a place," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin emigrare "move away, depart from a place," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + migrare "to move" (see migration).
Example
- 1. Emigration was now linked to the soviet-american relationship .
- 2. Emigration also throws up some interesting and ironic contradictions .
- 3. This set off a wave of emigration .
- 4. Emigration used to be hard .
- 5. Emigration today is different from in past decades .