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emigration

How to use emigration in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for emigration.

Editorial note

I want to pad my emigration fund by doing what I do best: writing code.

Examples8
Definitions1
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Quick take

migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of emigration gathered in one view.

noun

migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for emigration.

noun

migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

Example sentences

1

I want to pad my emigration fund by doing what I do best: writing code.

2

If anything, remittances were used to fund further emigration, so that families could join up abroad.

3

It's not like patterns of emigration seen with other countries, where one or the other parent leaves and sends money back to the family, and eventually returns.

4

I see net emigration from the valley amongst experienced engineers in their 30s who start having families and can find better financial lives elsewhere.

5

Granted, there are certainly depressing and desolate areas of the city, but again that should be expected for a city that has seen massive emigration and decreased revenue.

6

It makes more sense to spend time establishing myself locally and using that to put myself into a more favourable negotiating position with a sponsor in the future with respect to emigration.

7

Any idea when that took hold in Ireland?My other guess would be that the mass emigration of the 1840s-50s created a long-lasting easy pathway for Irish to emigrate to the US, and that this proved so attractive that the population stayed low even in the face of high birthrates.

8

I recently did an admittedly somewhat silly analysis, to see what happens if you take the "voting with your feet" metaphor for emigration seriously, and interpret each country's emigrants as a ranked-ballot "vote" for most appealing destination country, with all the ballots tallied using a Condorcet ranking.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use emigration in a sentence?

I want to pad my emigration fund by doing what I do best: writing code.

What does emigration mean?

migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

What part of speech is emigration?

emigration is commonly used as noun.