Immigration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immigration \Im"mi*gra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. immigration.]
     The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country
     for the purpose of permanent residence.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. --T.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immigration
       n 1: migration into a place (especially migration to a country of
            which you are not a native in order to settle there)
            [syn: {in-migration}]
       2: the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval;
          "the increased immigration strengthened the colony"

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IMMIGRATION. The removing into one place from another. It differs from 
  emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide 
  Emigration.