Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Migration into one community, region, or country from another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun migration into a place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
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Examples
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A lot of places that lost are places that are experiencing simultaneous out-migration, lack of in-migration and aging. ...
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The state [as a whole], and Houston and San Antonio [in particular] are deriving significant income from domestic in-migration.
America's Most Affordable Cities Francesca Levy 2010
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Right up until the early 19th century most cities maintained their populations only by in-migration; urban death rates (mainly from disease) were so high the cities would have dwindled to ghost towns without rural immigrants. jack lecou Says:
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The big winners in terms of growth were in the South, with Texas, Florida and North Carolina as the leading in-migration states.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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One obvious feature from the maps is the “donut” phenomenon, the prevalence of large central county net out-migration, surrounded by a ring of substantial suburban and exurban net in-migration (about two-thirds of which is from the central core counties).
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Mr. Perry says Haley Barbour told him they'd need turnstiles on the border if that tort bill passed, and indeed the in-migration of doctors to Texas is significant.
Rick Perry: Ready for Prime Time? Daniel Henninger 2011
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Mr. Perry says Haley Barbour told him they'd need turnstiles on the border if that tort bill passed, and indeed the in-migration of doctors to Texas is significant.
Rick Perry: Ready for Prime Time? Daniel Henninger 2011
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The state [as a whole], and Houston and San Antonio [in particular] are deriving significant income from domestic in-migration.
America's Most Affordable Cities Francesca Levy 2010
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The micro-wars, the wars of the rockets, are intended to discourage in-migration to Israel by the Russians and other former East Bloc Jews, and to foster out-migration by Israeli Jews, which the Israeli leadership and Zionism generally view as a dire threat to the character of the Israeli state.
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Instead we have been seeing black in-migration in the South in recent years.
The Great Lone Star Migration Michael Barone 2011
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Finally, cities were particularly unhealthy, with death rates there exceeding birth rates by a large margin – without in-migration, European cities before 1850 would have disappeared.
—Economist's View
July 30, 2009