immigration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval

   the increased immigration strengthened the colony

2. 2
   noun

   The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.

   The Bohemians had come then, and after them the Poles. People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that they would never again call a strike on him, and so he had sent his agents into every city and village in Europe to spread the tale of the chances of work and high wages at the stockyards.

3. 3
   noun

   The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.

   It took ages to get through immigration last time.

4. 4
   noun

   migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)

Etymology

From immigrate + -ion.