| 单词 | emigration-agent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasemigration-agent 2. esp. The departure of persons from one country, usually their native land, to settle permanently in another. Also attributive, as in emigration-agent. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > emigration > [noun] transplanting1608 outcrease1625 evasiona1659 emigrationa1676 outmigration1936 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 240 (R.) Plethory hath many times occasioned emigrations. 1768–71 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 198 It highly behoves us to stop immediately all further emigrations. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 125 Those melancholy emigrations..from the Islands..of Scotland. 1833 J. Wade Hist. Middle & Working Classes (1835) 106 The practicability of emigration as a means of relief. 1867 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. i. 9 An overflow which in civilised times is an emigration, is in barbarous times an invasion. < as lemmas |
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