Emigrate vs Relocate - What's the difference?
emigrate | relocate |
To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
* Macaulay
* J. H. Newman
to move (something) from one place to another.
to change one's domicile or place of business.
In intransitive terms the difference between emigrate and relocate
is that emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere while relocate is to change one's domicile or place of business.emigrate
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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
* * * ----relocate
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Verb
(en-verb)- We had to relocate the magazine rack because we bruised our shins on it too frequently when it was near the door.
- Alfred relocated to Colorado Springs to take advantage of the boom in the defense industry.
