emigrate

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em·i·grate /ˈemɪɡreɪt/ verb [intransitiveI]

LEAVE YOUR HOME/COUNTRYto leave your own country in order to live in another country 移居外國 → immigrate

emigrate to/from

He emigrated to Australia as a young man.

他年輕時移居澳大利亞。

—emigration /ˌemɪˈɡreɪʃən/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

emigrate• We failed to feed a starving people, leaving millions to die or emigrate.• At the same time, several dozen applicants per month actually got permission to emigrate.• Good telecommunications links can bring them closer to western markets, giving their skilled workers less incentive to emigrate.• In order to survive, the Prophet decided to emigrate.• My parents emigrated from Britain to New Zealand just before I was born.• My grandparents emigrated from Italy.• The couple emigrated in 1987 and are back here on holiday to see friends and relatives.• Millie's brother Dennis, and his wife Joan, decided to emigrate the following year.• They later got married and emigrated to Australia in 1936.• Our son and his wife, Jenny, emigrated to Australia in 1988.• There is no need for them to emigrate to make money.• Later they emigrate to Pittsburg, but can never escape their tangled past.

emigrate to/from• There is no need for them to emigrate to make money.• He came from a prosperous or at least commercially successful Lincolnshire family which emigrated to Massachusetts in 1633 and 1634.• After the arrival of the first six, the Eatons emigrated to New York and finally, in 1874, to Montreal.• Over the same period, over 400,000 immigrants have come to Britain and over a million people have emigrated to other countries.• Geographically, the selection would be limited to foreign artists who had emigrated to Paris.• Miller emigrated from the Middle West to Oregon in 1852 and drifted south to California a few years later.• When he was 20, he emigrated to the United States.• Simple forms sculpted in wood and stone were the medium favoured by Indelbaum, who emigrated from Vilnius to Paris in 1911.

From Longman Business Dictionary

emigrateem·i·grate /ˈemɪgreɪt/ verb [intransitiveI]

to leave your own country to live permanently in another country

About 8000 people emigrate from the region each year.

I’m emigrating to Australia.

→ compare immigrate

Origin emigrate

(1700-1800) Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare, from migrare; → MIGRATE

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