Verb: migrate mI'greyt or 'mI,greyt
- Move from one country or region to another and settle there
"Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century";
- transmigrate
- Move periodically or seasonally
"birds migrate in the winter"; "The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting"
- (computing) change from one computing system to another
"The company decided to migrate their data to the cloud"
Derived forms: migrated, migrates, migrating
Type of: move, up sticks [Brit, informal]
Encyclopedia: Migrate