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im⋅mi⋅grate

  [im-i-greyt] verb, -grat⋅ed, -grat⋅ing.
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–verb (used without object)
1. to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
2. to pass or come into a new habitat or place, as an organism.
–verb (used with object)
3. to introduce as settlers: to immigrate cheap labor.
Origin:
1615–25; < L immigrātus (ptp. of immigrāre to move into). See im- 1 , migrate

Related forms:
im⋅mi⋅gra⋅tor, noun

Synonyms:
1. See migrate.
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im·mi·grate   (ĭm'ĭ-grāt')   
v.   im·mi·grat·ed, im·mi·grat·ing, im·mi·grates

v.   intr.
To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. See Usage Note at migrate.
v.   tr.
To send or introduce as immigrants: Britain immigrated many colonists to the New World.

[Latin immigrāre, immigrāt-, to go into : in-, in; see in-2 + migrāre, to depart.]
im'mi·gra'tion n., im'mi·gra'tion·al adj.
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Immigrate

Im"mi*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immigrating.] [L. immigrare, immigratum, to immigrate; pref. im- in + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.] To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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immigrate 
1623, from L. immigratum, pp. of imigrare "to remove, go into, move in," from in- "in" + migrare "to move" (see migration). Immigrant "one who immigrates" is first attested 1792 in an Amer.Eng. context.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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