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Discover LudwigThe word 'emigrant' is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to a person who leaves their country or region to settle in another one. This is usually done in search of better economic opportunities, improved living conditions, or for personal reasons. Example: The emigrants arrived in the new country with a mixture of excitement and apprehension, ready to start their new lives.
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This is one of our most frequent errors immigrate to arrive in a country; emigrate to leave one Hence immigrant, immigration, emigrant, emigration Immigration and Nationality Directorate may be called "the immigration service" immune to not immune from impact a noun, not a verb: say "affected" rather than the awful jargon phrase "impacted on".
Guardian Money was alerted to Galliard's decision to sell to Chinese investors ahead of the British by a recent emigrant to the city, who spotted its promotion.
Besides the larger number of emigrant rocks from its surface, Mars cooled faster than the earth after it formed, and so would have reached conditions favourable to life (a dense atmosphere, allowing for surface water) earlier.That would make it more likely that earth was the recipient, not the giver, of life.
Held on the eve of Greek Orthodox Lent, the fasting period that starts today, Zambo celebrates the last period of excess.The inspiration of the annual Zambo celebration is unclear, despite it being a tradition that stretches back over a century to when an emigrant to Brazil returned to his native Tripoli bringing the carnival with him.
By Paul DehnA boat-load of emigrant Huns Including five doom-destined nuns Came to grief on a shoal— But since heaven's our goal, The dead were the fortunate ones.
Middle-income places like Poland and Mexico are big recipients; poor and isolated ones, notably in Africa, are less likely to export many migrants (though, as Africa grows richer, its small emigrant population will probably soar).
By the 1980s the archetypal emigrant was not just the poor labourer but the frustrated graduate.
Whether the true figure is higher or lower is neither here nor there; more interesting is the extraordinary influence of emigrant Scots in their new homelands.Add to this the influence of Scottish advances in science, industry, medicine and philosophy, and a fair case can be made that the Scots have cast a tall shadow on the world.
Historically, the Portuguese have been an emigrant race.
Many emigrant workers then retire early, coming home to a quiet state where there is little to do.
On this day last year, as the high point of a year-long cultural festival, the authorities in his home town of Derry organised a glittering river-borne pageant entitled "The Return of Columcille"—to imply that the saint, like many a homesick Irish emigrant, had given up his wanderings and was finally sailing home.
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