OUT-MIGRANTS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

out-migrants

noun

plural of out-migrant

as in immigrants

one that leaves one place to settle in another most out-migrants cited the state's high cost of living as their main reason for leaving

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Noun

And that traditional core American values include being a welcoming melting pot and nation of immigrants who want to embrace the world.

— Vahe Gregorian July 4, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
But the foundation was laid much earlier — by immigrants, workers, parents, church communities, and family members who understood that freedom only has meaning when it is converted into responsibility.

— Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of immigrants

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However, our calculations show that population growth in Florida, particularly from out-of-state migrants, has nearly stopped.

— Karin Brewster, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
The remote, inhospitable terrain serves as a natural biological barrier, though hundreds of thousands of migrants traverse the gap every year.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

Definition of migrants

Noun

Some became stockmen, learning to ride settlers’ horses and using their deep knowledge of the land to muster cattle on horseback across vast landscapes.

— Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
The history in Kaskaskia is as rich as the soil that attracted settlers in the first place and made it, for a time, Illinois’ most important place.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

Definition of settlers

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The book looked at the world of a swath of Irish women emigrants who were deemed troublemakers, highlighting that for a period of time, Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026
Perhaps as important as Morocco’s investment in nurturing domestic talent has been its improved efforts to scout and court eligible international talent —often the descendants of emigrants who have learned the game in world-class competitive environs elsewhere.

— Dan Greene, New Yorker, 12 June 2026

Definition of emigrants

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Bangladesh has urged the international community for years to help the country begin repatriation of the refugees to Myanmar, but the process is stalled.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Most immigration experts agree that the EU’s asylum laws were a triumph of European cooperation and respect for the dignity and rights of refugees.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026

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