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immigration

noun
/ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/UK/ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/US

Etymology

From immigrate + -ion.

Definitions

  1. The act of immigrating

    The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.

  2. The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.

    • It took ages to get through immigration last time.

The neighborhood

Derived

antiimmigration, anti-immigration, crimmigration, illegal immigration, immigrational, immigrationism, immigrationist, nonimmigration, postimmigration, preimmigration, proimmigration, pro-immigration, reimmigration

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for immigration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA