migration

Word family  noun migration migrant adjective migratory verb migrate

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mi·gra·tion /maɪˈɡreɪʃən/ ●○○ AWL noun [countable, uncountable]  1. LEAVE YOUR HOME/COUNTRYwhen large numbers of people go to live in another area or country, especially in order to find work 〔一大群人尤为找工作的〕移居，迁移2. when birds or animals travel regularly from one part of the world to another 〔鸟或兽的〕迁徙3. when people start using a different computer system, or information is moved to a different computer system 〔计算机系统的〕更新；〔计算机信息的〕转移

Examples from the Corpus

migration• Why is there a migration of industry from urban areas towards relatively rural ones?• The United States was created by migration and the modern world has been sculpted by migration.• Both emigration and internal migration became increasingly controlled.• Southerners hotly contended that no violence necessitating migration existed; the resolution was not passed.• One form of black response to the fraud and violence in the South was a substantial migration of blacks northward.• the yearly migration of geese

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migration
mi‧gra‧tion AC /maɪˈɡreɪʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]1. when large numbers of people go to live in another area or country, especially in order to find work
2. when birds or animals travel regularly from one part of the world to another
3. when people start using a different computer system, or information is moved to a different computer system

mi·gra·tion AW BrE /maɪˈɡreɪʃn/ 🔊NAmE /maɪˈɡreɪʃn/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] the movement of large numbers of people, birds or animals from one place to another 迁移；移居；迁徙◆seasonal migration季节性迁徙◆mass migrations大规模的迁移the act of moving programs, etc. from one computer system to another; the fact of changing from one computer system to another （程序或硬件的）迁移，转移；（计算机系统的）改变