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Noun: emigration  `e-mu'grey-shun
  1. Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
    "a drain of young talent by emigration"
    - out-migration, expatriation

Derived forms: emigrations

See also: emigrate

Type of: migration

Encyclopedia: Emigration