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IN-MIGRATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in-migration mean?
• IN-MIGRATION (noun)
The noun IN-MIGRATION has 1 sense:
1. migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
Familiarity information: IN-MIGRATION used as a noun is very 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 ("in-migration" 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 "in-migration"):
aliyah ((Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel)
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