emigration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
    out-migration; expatriation.

WordNet

Em`i*gra"tion noun
Etymology
L. emigratio: cf. F. émigration.
Definitions
  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.
  2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

Webster 1913