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What is the difference between immigrants and emigrants?
Just checking to see if anyone actually knows this one ....
Most of you are correct, it is a constant surprise to me how many native speakers of English mix up words like these.
Fiddlemybutcheek: bear with me ... great name, by the way.
17 Answers
- sweet thingLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
an immigrant is someone who is coming into a country and an emigrant is someone who is leaving their country to live in another country.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Immigrants are coming in; emigrants are going out.
- 1 decade ago
i studied about that before ammm but i guess it means that the immigrant is the one who went to the other country or a town and the emigrant is the one who left the his country or town
Source(s): my science teacher - Anonymous1 decade ago
An immgrant is someone coming into the country and an emigrant someone going out of it..i think :)
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Immigrants come IN, emigrants go OUT - if you're not sure, think of imports & exports - same thing.
- Anonymous5 years ago
What is the difference between Orla C and a Yahoo Answers troll?? NONE Just checking if she actually knows this one...
- 1 decade ago
one who come from other country to our country is immigrant,the opposite is emigrants
- Anonymous1 decade ago
One comes into the country, and the other one leaves the country.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Come on Orla, I thought you were more intelligent than this judging by the witty and incisive answers that you have left to several of my questions.
I appear to have maybe erred in my judgement
