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emigration: moving from a country
immigration: moving to a country

Immigration: The noun immigration has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) immigration, in-migration -- (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))
2. immigration -- (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony")

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Synonym 2 senses of immigration

Sense 1
immigration, in-migration -- (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))
=> migration -- (the movement of persons from one country or locality to another)

Sense 2
immigration -- (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony")
=> body -- (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium")

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Coordination 2 senses of immigration

Sense 1
immigration, in-migration -- (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))
-> migration -- (the movement of persons from one country or locality to another)
=> emigration, out-migration, expatriation -- (migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another))
=> immigration, in-migration -- (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))
=> gold rush -- (a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field)

Sense 2
immigration -- (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony")
-> body -- (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium")
=> public -- (a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading public")
=> sector -- (a body of people who form part of society or economy; "the public sector")
=> Christendom, Christianity -- (the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia); "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom")
=> church -- (the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church; "our church is hosting a picnic next week")
=> Sacred College, College of Cardinals -- ((Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes)
=> administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation -- (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment")
=> corps -- (a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps")
=> constituency -- (the body of voters who elect a representative for their area)
=> electoral college -- (the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president)
=> school -- (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting")
=> college -- (the body of faculty and students of a college)
=> university -- (the body of faculty and students at a university)
=> staff, faculty -- (the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university")
=> representation -- (a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency; "a Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California")
=> colony, settlement -- (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)
=> ulema, ulama -- (the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community)
=> leadership, leaders -- (the body of people who lead a group; "the national leadership adopted his plan")
=> militia -- (the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service; "their troops were untrained militia"; "Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia"--United States Constitution)
=> membership, rank -- (the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed")
=> occupational group, vocation -- (a body of people doing the same kind of work)
=> opposition -- (a body of people united in opposing something)
=> immigration -- (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony")
=> inspectorate -- (a body of inspectors)
=> jury -- (a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law)
=> panel -- (a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc)
=> panel, venire -- ((law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen))
=> registration, enrollment -- (the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time)
=> vote -- (a body of voters who have the same interests; "he failed to get the Black vote")
=> diaspora -- (the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel)