migrate

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 3.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To relocate periodically from one region to another, usually according to the seasons.

   Twice a year the geese migrate — from Florida to Canada and back again.

2. verb To change one's geographic pattern of habitation.

   Many groups had migrated to western Europe from the plains of eastern Europe.

3. verb To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another.

   To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.

4. verb To move slowly towards, usually in groups.

   Once the hosts started bickering in the kitchens, the guests began to migrate towards the living room.

5. verb To move gradually, especially from an intended to an unintended position.

   Oil was able to migrate from the accessory gearbox into the magneto housing through the improperly installed gland seals.

6. verb To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.

   They had finished migrating all of the affected code to the production server by 2:00am, three hours later than expected.

7. verb To induce customers to shift purchases from one set of a company's related products to another.

   We were hoping to migrate the customers of the "C" series to the "E" series and the "E" customers to the "S" series.

Similar words

migratory immigrate emigrate relocate immigration transfer move pass spend travel

Often followed by

to from into in through and toward with out

Word family

migrant migrants migratable migrated migrates migrating migration migrational migrations migrator