IMMIGRATION Synonyms

• a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)

• (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement

• something added to what you already have

• agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)

• the right to enter

• the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)

• make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library

• accomplishment of an objective

• the act of arriving at a certain place

• someone who arrives (or has arrived)

• migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

• an item inserted in a written record

• the act of beginning something new

• a written record of a commercial transaction

• something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)

• something that provides access (to get in or get out)

• the act of entering

• the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

• a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)

• (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule

• the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding

• a change of position that does not entail a change of location

• the act of changing location from one place to another

• a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

• a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

• a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata

• a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

• an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object

• a euphemism for defecation

• a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

• the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)

• the act of changing the location of something

• in motion

• arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion

• used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion

• the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)

• the act of changing your residence or place of business

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities