immigration
Prior to migration, Ohio's peregrine falcon population is estimated to reach 110 to 130 birds.
The longest migration of a tiger shark tracked before this new record was 1,984 miles.
The city has incorporated moose migration paths into its land-use planning.
Pressure on housing, health services and schools would occur even without migration, she argues.
British migration to France, at just over 40,000 a year, outstrips French migration to Britain.

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Changing homes & moving

migrationnoun[C or U] (CHANGING)

the process of beginning to use a new computer system, or of moving information from one type of system to another: （计算机系统的）变更;（信息的）迁移
Thanks for your patience during the migration to the new system.感谢您在变更到新系统期间的耐心等待。
The processes must include accurate data migration.这些过程必须包括准确的数据迁移。
the process of customers changing to a new service or to a new company that supplies a service: 客户迁移
They are assessing the impact of the migration of 6,000 subscribers to DIRECTV Latin America in the third quarter.他们正在评估六千名订户第三季度迁移到DIRECTV拉美台所造成的影响。
There was a major upgrade of the library system, which necessitated the migration of most staff machines to Windows XP Professional.
The package allows data migrations to be performed while live traffic is flowing.
IT staff need to get the right applications back on the right desktops after migration.
These enhanced value-added elements will prevent the migration of accounts to other firms.

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Business - general words

migration | American Dictionary

migration
noun[ C/U ]
us/mɑɪˈɡreɪ·ʃən/
movement from one region to another and often back again, esp. according to the season of the year:
[ U ]She’s interested in bat migration.

migration | Business English

migration
noun[ C or U ]
uk /maɪˈɡreɪʃən/us
ECONOMICS
the process of a person or people travelling to a new place or country, usually in order to find work and live there temporarily or permanently:
Higher housing prices will probably slow the migration of workers.
the process of moving or being moved from one place to another:
Outsourcing involves the migration of jobs to areas with low labour costs.
IT
the process of beginning, or of making someone begin, to use a new computer system:
They have announced the date for the migration of customers to the new trading system.
IT
the process of moving software or hardware from one computer system to another:
Our specialty is the migration of software from Windows to Linux (or vice versa).

Examples of migration

migration
The molecules that mediate migration have not been precisely defined but are likely to be members of the integrin and immunoglobulin families.
The very high differentiation between the regions was established within two or three generations, despite moderate levels of migration still occurring.
For example, there are factors that, when present at midgestation, disturb neuronal migration and differentiation.
All in all, the present analysis thus has led to a somewhat mixed conclusion about the role of the laws of settlement on labour migration.
Both of these will be affected by migration, movement and intermixing between human populations in endemic areas.
This network of near relatives drastically reduced with the migrations of young adults.
Since this measure is computed from census statistics, it is affected by differences in enumeration errors and in mortality and migration.
Migration can, of course, be approached more directly by a description and analysis of the available statistics.
However, migration scholars usually distinguish between internal and international migration.
One set of supportive links arose around discussions of ethnic identity and migration.
To date however, the effect of an intestinal adult tapeworm on leucocyte migration from the pronephros has not been ascertained.
In the embolization of systemic-to-pulmonary collaterals, which is the main indication for this procedure in children, secondary migration occurs towards branch pulmonary arteries.
Probably no book on migration would be complete without some reference to assimilation, and in a sociological context clearly this is a very important aspect.
This study investigates differences in migration patterns between men and women, and of migrants belonging to various social groups.
In addition, legal problems arise when migration controls - which have a direct impact on asylum seekers' situation - are exercised by incompetent authorities.
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Collocations withmigration

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annual migration
This annualmigration has gone on year after year, quite regularly and without interruption or disturbance, for many generations.
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