Immigrate

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  • intransitive verb. To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native.
  • intransitive verb. To send or introduce as immigrants.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pass or come into, as a new habitat or place of residence; especially, to remove into a country of which one is not a native for the purpose of permanent residence; migrate or be conveyed into and settle in another country or region.
  • Synonyms Emigrate, etc. See migrate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See emigrate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To move into another country to stay there permanently.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. migrate to a new environment
  • verb. come into a new country and change residency
  • verb. introduce or send as immigrants
    • Word Usage
    "Eventually institutional quality falls so much that the incentive to immigrate is reduced and population flows reach equilibrium."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    emigrate  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bring in  introduce  migrate  transmigrate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    come  migrate  
    variant
    emigrate  
    verb-form
    immigrated  immigrates  immigrating  
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