migrate

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1 : to move from one country or place to live or work in another

• He migrates from New York to Florida each winter.
• Thousands of workers migrate to this area each summer.

2 of a bird or animal : to move from one area to another at different times of the year

• The whales migrate between their feeding ground in the north and their breeding ground in the Caribbean.
• They followed the migrating herds of buffalo across the plains.
• migrating birds

— migration /maɪˈgreɪʃən/ noun

• an expert on bird migration
• mass migrations of workers
• fall migrations to breeding grounds

— migrational /maɪˈgreɪʃənl̟/ adjective

migrational movements