| n. | 1. | The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. |
| Noun | 1. | immigration - migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) Synonyms: in-migration |
| 2. | immigration - the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony" |
IMMIGRATION. The removing into one place from another. It differs from emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide Emigration.
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