emigration.

Movement out of a country to live elsewhere, viewed from the country of departure.

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Words that belong together

• emigration from a country
• rate of emigration

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Emigration from the country affected some regions more strongly than others.

The rate of emigration was compared with return migration rather than treated as permanent loss in every case.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: moderately common.