immigration

See also: Immigration

English

Etymology

From immigrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
  • Hyphenation: im‧mi‧gra‧tion
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

immigration (countable and uncountable, plural immigrations)

  1. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
    • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:
      Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship cases for which the general law fails to provide. In the Eighty-seventh Congress over 3,500 such bills were introduced. Private immigration bills make up about half of our legislation today.
    • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎, number Summer 2019:
      [Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
  2. The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
    It took ages to get through immigration last time.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Malay: imigresen

Translations

Further reading

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /imiɡrasjoːn/, [imiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn] or IPA(key): /emiɡrasjoːn/, [emiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

immigration c (singular definite immigrationen, plural indefinite immigrationer)

  1. immigration

Inflection
Declension of immigration
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative immigration immigrationen immigrationer immigrationerne
genitive immigrations immigrationens immigrationers immigrationernes

Synonyms

Further reading

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /i.mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

immigration f (plural immigrations)

  1. immigration

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

immigration c

  1. immigration
    Synonym: invandring
    Antonyms: emigration, utvandring

Declension
Declension of immigration 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative immigration immigrationen immigrationer immigrationerna
Genitive immigrations immigrationens immigrationers immigrationernas

See also

References
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