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Emigrate vs Demigrate - What's the difference?

emigrate | demigrate |

As verbs the difference between emigrate and demigrate

is that emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere while demigrate is (obsolete) to emigrate or demigrate can be to cancel or return from migration (of eg a computer system).

emigrate

English

Verb

(emigrat)
  • To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
  • * Macaulay
    • Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
  • * J. H. Newman
    • They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

    Antonyms

    * immigrate

    Related terms

    * emigrant * emigration * * immigrant * immigrate * immigration * migrate * migration * migratory

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    demigrate

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) demigrare.

    Verb

    (demigrat)
  • (obsolete) To emigrate.
    • (Cockeram)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (demigrat)
  • 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)
    • 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.
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