Em`i*gra"tion (?), n. [L. emigratio: cf. F. 'emigration.]
1.
The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.
2.
A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
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