emigration

emigration
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. migration, departure, exodus. See egress. Ant., immigration.
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. migration, resettlement, relocation, reestablishment, defection, expatriation, departure, removal, leaving, displacement, moving, moving away, crossing, transplanting, uprooting, exodus, exile, trek, journey, movement, march, travel, voyage, wandering, peregrination, shift, settling, homesteading, colonization, Volkswanderung (German), brain drain*.
Ant. immigration*, arriving, remaining.
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Departure from one's native land to settle in another: exodus, immigration, migration, transmigration. See APPROACH.

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