migration.

1. The movement of people from one place of residence to another, within or across borders.

2. The movement of animals between habitats, especially in a regular or seasonal pattern.

3. The transfer of data, software or a system to a different environment or arrangement.

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Words that belong together

• internal migration
• international migration

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Internal migration changed the demand for services in the receiving region.

International migration linked the households to more than one labor market.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; singular migration, plural migrations for distinct movements. 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.