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Immigrate   /ˈɪməgrˌeɪt/   Listen
Immigrate

verb
(past & past part. immigrated; pres. part. immigrating)
1.
Migrate to a new environment.
2.
Introduce or send as immigrants.
3.
Come into a new country and change residency.





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"Immigrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... many colored folks coming out West to do better. We thought we come too. We come on immigrate ticket on the train. All the people I worked for was Captain Williams, Dr. Givens. Mr. Richardson right where Mesa is now but they called it 88 then (88 miles from Memphis). Mr. Gates. I farmed, washed and ironed. I nursed some since I'm not able to get about in the field. I never owned nothing. ...
— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration
... effect you so clearly point out, of local gaps in number being thus immediately filled up. But the original difficulty remains; for if your farmers had not killed your sparrows and rooks, what would have become of those which now immigrate into your parish? in the middle of England one is too far distant from the natural limits of the rook and sparrow to suppose that the young are thus far expelled from Cambridgeshire. The check must fall heavily at some time of each ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin


Words linked to "Immigrate" :   transmigrate, bring in, arrive, come, immigrant, emigrate, introduce, immigration, get, migrate


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