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IMMIGRATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does immigration mean?
• IMMIGRATION (noun)
The noun IMMIGRATION has 2 senses:
1. migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
2. the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
Familiarity information: IMMIGRATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
immigration; in-migration
Hypernyms ("immigration" is a kind of...):
migration (the movement of persons from one country or locality to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immigration"):
aliyah ((Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel)
Derivation:
immigrate (come into a new country and change residency)
immigrate (migrate to a new environment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
the increased immigration strengthened the colony
Hypernyms ("immigration" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Derivation:
immigrate (come into a new country and change residency)
immigrate (introduce or send as immigrants)
Context examples
It will also help you with immigration matters, a legal case, an academic pursuit, or media projects, for all relate to your solar ninth house.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
These might involve: • Your age • Whether you are pregnant, disabled, or blind • Your income and resources • Whether or not you are a U.S. citizen or, if not, what your immigration status is
(Medicaid, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
All legal matters, and ones involving international relationships and immigration, will shine, too.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Legal matters, international relationships, and any kind of situation involving immigration, passports, visas, or green cards will have joyful resolutions.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Immigration matters will be under superb rays, too.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If you have been concerned over an immigration matter, you may now conclude it.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Immigration, passport, visa, and green card matters come under this same ninth house because of its link to international travel and relationships.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Watch for a breakthrough regarding foreign travel and international relationships, immigration matters, or those involving a passport, visa, or green card.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Your ninth house relates to the media, academia, legal matters, immigration, and distant travel.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This area of your chart also rules international relationships, citizenship matters, immigration, passports, visas, and green cards.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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