Synonyms for emigration
em·i·gra·tion

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1. emigration

   Synonyms:
   exodus, colonization, flit

   Antonyms:
   abode, sojourn, settlement, stay, domiciliation, immigration

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1. emigration, out-migration, expatriationnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   out-migration, deportation, transportation, exile, expatriation

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1. emigrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   migration, removal, exodus

2. emigrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   body of emigrants

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1. emigrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   migration, exodus, emigrants

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1. List of paraphrases for "emigration":

   out-migration, migration, immigration, outmigration, exodus, emigrate

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1. Raj Kollmorgen:

   We are now talking about a selective process of emigration, with the so-called top performers leaving, young women on average are better educated than their male peers and more ambitious to seek their luck elsewhere.

2. Primo Levi:

   The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

3. Mohan Samaranayake:

   These five fishermen have been pardoned by the president and ordered to be transferred to emigration (to India).

4. President Dalia Grybauskaite:

   Of course some countries are far away, they think that it's not their business, they engage much more in problems of emigration, or Africa.

5. Hatem Uraibi:

   They come for work for Libyan firms but then embark on illegal migration (to Europe), the ban is part of government efforts to fight illegal emigration.