different between emigrate vs refusenik

English

Etymology

From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??m?.gr?t'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• Homophone: immigrate (accents with pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em?i?grate

Verb

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
   • 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches

     They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

Antonyms

• immigrate

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

Translations

Further reading

• emigrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• emigrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• emigrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Meritage, graemite

Italian

Adjective

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Noun

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

Verb

emigrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emigrare
2. second-person plural imperative of emigrare
3. feminine plural past participle of emigrato

Anagrams

• mergiate, regimate, remigate

Latin

Verb

?migr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?migr?

English

Etymology

refuse +? -nik

Pronunciation

Noun

refusenik (plural refuseniks)

1. (Soviet Union, slang, historical) One of the Jewish citizens of the former Soviet Union who were refused permission to emigrate.
2. (colloquial) A person who refuses to do something, for example one who refuses conscription or vaccination.
   • 2006, Lawrence Thompson, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, page 678::

     Richard Ellmann once referred to Samuel Beckett as “Nayman from Noland”—the author as national refusenik. Beckett famously refused to allow a national representative from either Ireland or or France tot pick up his Nobel Prize […]

   • 2008, Sergio Catignani, Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas: Dilemmas of a Conventional Army, Routledge (?ISBN), page 94:

     One IDF refusenik recounted how commanders on the field tried very hard to accommodate potential conscientious objectors by offering alternative and less controversial missions, in order to avoid their refusal to serve from becoming a public, and thus, political statement: […]

Synonyms

• (citizen refused permission to emigrate): otkaznik

Related terms

• recusant

See also

• (one who refuses to do something): anti-vaccinationist

References

• “refusenik”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.