immigration

im·mi·grate  (m-grt)

v. im·mi·grat·ed, im·mi·grat·ing, im·mi·grates

v.intr.

To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. See Usage Note at migrate.

v.tr.

To send or introduce as immigrants: Britain immigrated many colonists to the New World.

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[Latin immigrre, immigrt-, to go into : in-, in; see in-² + migrre, to depart.]

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immi·gration n.

immi·gration·al adj.

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immigration

Noun

the act of coming to a foreign country in order to settle there [Latin immigrare to go into]

immigrate vb

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	immigration - migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) in-migration aliyah - (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel; "students making aliyah" migration - the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
	2.	immigration - the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony" body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"

Translations

immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] n → inmigración f

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immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] immigrant n → immigration f

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immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] n → Einwanderung f;

(at airport etc) → Einwanderungsstelle f

cpd → Einwanderungs-

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immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] n → immigrazione f