Emigrated vs Demigrated - What's the difference?
emigrated | demigrated |
(emigrate)
To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
* Macaulay
* J. H. Newman
(demigrate)
(obsolete) To emigrate.
To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
* 2002 , Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades (page 196)
As verbs the difference between emigrated and demigrated
is that emigrated is (emigrate) while demigrated is (demigrate).emigrated
English
Verb
(head)emigrate
English
Verb
(emigrat)- Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
- They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
Antonyms
* immigrateExternal links
* * * ----demigrated
English
Verb
(head)demigrate
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (lena) demigrare.Verb
(demigrat)- (Cockeram)
Etymology 2
Verb
(demigrat)- The reason is that it is more cost effective to debug and troubleshoot the new environment than to demigrate and lose all the data transactions completed under the new technology.