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Emigrates vs Demigrates - What's the difference?

emigrates | demigrates |

As verbs the difference between emigrates and demigrates

is that emigrates is while demigrates is (demigrate).

emigrates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (emigrate)

    • 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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    demigrates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (demigrate)

    • 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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