Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Migration out of one community, region, or country in order to reside in another.
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- noun A
migration outwards.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The former is the rate of new “cases” during a given time period (e.g., how many new cases of TB diagnosed in a calendar year), the latter is the total number of “cases” at a particular time (e.g., new TB cases as well as ones diagnosed at an earlier time that have persisted, that is have not ceased to be cases because of cure, death, or outmigration from the population of interest).
The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Turn Good News into Bad News 2010
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"Ultimately, Youth Access aims to help participants secure their place and future in our communities and combat on-going economic and social sustainability concerns, such as outmigration and youth retention-issues that face most of our rural communities in Nova Scotia."
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"It is by making sound choices in the coming years, both individually and as one team, that we will be able to remove the word 'outmigration' from our vocabularies in the same way that we removed the word 'have-not,'" Williams said during a speech.
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"It is by making sound choices in the coming years, both individually and as one team, that we will be able to remove the word 'outmigration' from our vocabularies in the same way that we removed the word 'have-not,'" Williams said during a speech.
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"It is by making sound choices in the coming years, both individually and as one team, that we will be able to remove the word 'outmigration' from our vocabularies in the same way that we removed the word 'have-not,'" Williams said during a speech.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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The decline in non-Hispanic white people is caused primarily by two things: a birth rate about half that of Hispanics and outmigration, says Gordon DeJong, professor of sociology and demography at Penn State University.
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This outmigration slowed briefly following the onset of the Great Recession.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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For more than 15 years, New York state has led the country in domestic outmigration: For every American who comes here, roughly two depart for other states.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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Mr. Vranich said that the outmigration could become "a stampede" in 2011.
California Fleeing Stephen Moore 2011
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Its outmigration rate over the last decade has been staggering.
State races are vitally important this year. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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