emigration

noun

em·​i·​gra·​tion ˌe-mə-ˈgrā-shən 

plural emigrations

: an act or instance of emigrating : departure from a place of abode, natural home, or country for life or residence elsewhere

… with the advent of steamships, by the 1880s intensive emigration had spread from every corner of the globe.

—B. S. Rabinowitz

Further Chinese emigration to Taiwan was to be carefully limited.

—Jonathan D. Spence

Examples of emigration in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Years of political repression, organized crime, economic misery and emigration have hollowed out Venezuela’s middle class and organized labor. —Robert Muggah, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026

Maduro has led Venezuela since 2013, presiding over a government widely criticized for authoritarian rule, electoral irregularities, human rights abuses, deep economic collapse and mass emigration. —Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 4 Jan. 2026

Once a population magnet, the state’s emigration problem persists. —Wayne Winegarden, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026

Years of political repression, organized crime, economic misery and emigration have hollowed out Venezuela’s middle class and organized labor. —Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1614, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for emigration

• abdication
• aberration
• abjuration
• abnegation
• abrogation
• acceptation
• acclamation
• acclimation
• accusation
• activation
• actuation
• acylation

Medical Definition

emigration

noun

em·​i·​gra·​tion ˌem-ə-ˈgrā-shən 

: diapedesis