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migration
  1. An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
  2. Seasonal moving for animals, as birds or fishes, to breed or find a new home.
  3. Movement in general.
  4. (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
  5. (biochemistry) The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The outward migration of people from the city has hurt the city's economy greatly.”
      “Dates for Paleo-Indian migration out of Beringia are a matter of current debate.”
      “This reflects a considerable local migration from the peasant areas of the parish into the canelands.”
immigrant
  1. A person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there.
  2. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The Canadian police doubted he was a genuine amnesiac and held him on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.”
migrator
  1. Any creature that migrates.
  2. (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “May spotted four saddlebag dragonflies — another migrator — hawking over goldenrod by the water.”
      “The only other migrator spotted that day was a single monarch butterfly wobbling north like a lost drunk.”
      “This champion migrator follows the sun of summer, never knowing a day of winter in its life.”
migrant
  1. A migratory bird or other animal.
  2. Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
    1. (informal, neologism) An immigrant or refugee.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The trainee guide, about 28, is a migrant who came from mainland China in her teens.”
      “The exiled migrant, who after many years is able to return to his or her former homeland, may have ambiguous feelings related to the drama of being forced to leave the homeland.”
immigration
  1. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In a place like Colorado, the clustering has been reinforced by the immigration of college-educated hipsters to the state.”
      “At Wagah, every passenger has to once again disembark with bag and baggage for the Pakistani round of immigration checks.”
      “Herein lies the primary tension between the two conflicting and apparently contradictory trends regarding immigration throughout the west.”
migrancy
migrater
  1. Alternative form of migrator
immigrator
  1. An immigrant.
immigrations
  1. plural of immigration
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In its history, America has experienced many immigrations, as waves of men and women came to its various regions in the hope of a better future.”
      “He then said there had been two Celtic immigrations, an eastern and a western.”
      “Hong Kong hence preserves its legal and political system, its money, its sports teams and its immigrations laws.”
immigrators
  1. plural of immigrator
immigrants
  1. plural of immigrant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Her first passage cost twenty dollars and she and all the other immigrants on board travelled in steerage or third-class.”
      “This is not about poverty, deprivation or cultural dislocation of second-generation immigrants.”
      “These are horrifying times for immigrants, with photographic images seared in their minds of foreigners being burned alive by elated crowds.”
migrations
  1. plural of migration
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For birds wintering at that northerly location, spring migrations may be less arduous, leading to increased survival and breeding success.”
      “The barrages separated the river from the sea, and had a disastrous impact on fish that rely on annual migrations upriver to spawn.”
      “During these long migrations they are extremely vulnerable to attack by predators.”
migraters
  1. plural of migrater
migrators
migrancies
migrants
  1. plural of migrant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “To facilitate animal traction, migrants cut down big trees, cleared bamboo bushes, and uprooted stumps.”
      “They look for work at another large farm and find agitators attempting to keep migrants from taking work as a protest against unfair wages.”
      “Illegal migrants and those convicted of harboring them now face a mandatory six months in jail and up to six strokes of the cane.”
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