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migrated

v.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈmaɪˌɡɹeɪtɪd// UK //maɪɡɹˈeɪtɪd// mi·grat·ed

v. moved from one place to another, usually to find work or a better place to live. For animals, it means moving to a different area at a certain time of year.

v. past tense and past participle of 'migrate'; refers to the seasonal movement of animals or the relocation of people to a new region. Often implies a large-scale or systematic shift in population or data.


SIMPLE

Many birds migrated south for the winter.

CONTEXTUAL

Thousands of workers migrated to the city last year in search of better-paying jobs in the tech sector.

COMPLEX

The engineering team successfully migrated the entire database to the cloud over the weekend, ensuring that no user data was lost during the transition.

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Usage

The verb is intransitive when referring to people or animals, but often transitive in a computing context ('migrated the data').

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