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ˈout-migrate, v. [out- 14.] intr. To leave one country or place to make one's home in another. Hence ˈoutmiˌgration. Cf. inmigration.
1953Caribbean Q. II. iv. 53 This January, twice as many net-out-migrated as in January of 1949, 1950, 1951. Ibid., Out-migration grows like snowballs running down hill. 1970S. L. Barraclough in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. iv. 157 Without greater agricultural production and accelerated out-migration, however, incomes resulting from reform would be dissipated by population increase within a generation or so. 1971[see in-migration]. 1975N.Y. Times 17 Nov. 24/3 The problem for cities that are victims of outmigration is that population decline correlates with at least a relative fall in average income. 1976Time 27 Sept. 55/3 Meanwhile, the out⁓migration of young blacks and whites has been reversed. 1977Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXV. 551/1 High rise flats..proved to be particularly unsuitable for families with young children, with the result that out-migration of such families was accelerated. |