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Emigrate vs Remigrate - What's the difference?

emigrate | remigrate |

As verbs the difference between emigrate and remigrate

is that emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere while remigrate is migrate again.

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

    remigrate

    English

    Verb

  • migrate again
  • Derived terms

    * remigration ----