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What is the difference between emigrate and immigrate??

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To emigrate is to leave you country just as an export leaves and to immigrate is to enter another country just as an import enters another country

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Emigrate means to leave one's country to live in another.

Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently.

Migrate means to move & can refer to either.

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