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English noun: immigration

1. immigration (act) migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)


Synonymsin-migration


Broader (hypernym)migration


Narrower (hyponym)aliyah

2. immigration (group) the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval


SamplesThe increased immigration strengthened the colony.


Broader (hypernym)body









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