emigration
nounEtymology From Late Latin stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).
1
The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
2
A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively.
- the Irish emigration
- Derived terms
- antiemigration, emigrational, emigrationist, inner emigration, nonemigration, postemigration, semigration