Synonyms for Migration
maɪˈgreɪ ʃənmi·gra·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. migrationnoun

   the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

2. migrationnoun

   a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)

3. migrationnoun

   (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule

4. migrationnoun

   the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding

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1. • Chemistry
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   • Periodic Event

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1. migrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   change of residence (from one country to another)

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1. List of paraphrases for "migration":

   immigration, migrations, migratory, migrating, migrant, emigration, migrate, migración, migrants, out-migration, exodus

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1. P. J. O'Rourke:

   There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

2. Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan:

   If we continue to provide protections under the umbrella of sanctuary cities and other rewards, for instance free health care, drivers license, jobs that they're not legally authorized to have, we will further incentivize a new wave of unprecedented illegal migration.

3. Christian Yates:

   What we've been able to tease out from the mathematical model is it's not necessarily that these cells are migrating in a directed way, actually these cells are diffusing, there's no direction to their migration. It's like when you put a drop of milk into a cup of coffee that you haven't stirred. Eventually that milk will be spread evenly throughout your coffee, and these cells are doing the same sort of thing - they're moving in an undirected manner and eventually, slowly, they manage to fully colonize the skin of this animal.

4. Paul Dabill:

   I was looking for mullet, this time of year is the fall mullet migration.

5. Fernandez Villasana:

   In the United States, people who have illegal migratory status are more chased than in Mexico. In Mexico, we try to make the migration orderly, safe.We don’t see it as a crime, like a crime of migration.