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Emigration \Em`i*gra"tion\, n. [L. emigratio: cf. F.
['e]migration.]
1. The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state
to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe
to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to
the Western.
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2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German
emigration.
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