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Immigration

//ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence. countable, uncountable

    "The Bohemians had come then, and after them the Poles. People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that they would never again call a strike on him, and so he had sent his agents into every city and village in Europe to spread the tale of the chances of work and high wages at the stockyards."

  2. 2
    migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint. countable, uncountable

    "It took ages to get through immigration last time."

  4. 4
    the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval wordnet

Etymology

From immigrate + -ion.

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