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Demigrate
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Demigrate
DEMIGRATE
or DEMIGRATION, [Not used. See Migrate.]Definition 2024
demigrate
demigrate
English
Verb
demigrate (third-person singular simple present demigrates, present participle demigrating, simple past and past participle demigrated)
- (obsolete) To emigrate.
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Etymology 2
Verb
demigrate (third-person singular simple present demigrates, present participle demigrating, simple past and past participle demigrated)
- To cancel or return from migration (of e.g. a computer system).
- 2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades (page 196)
- The reason is that it is more cost effective to debug and troubleshoot the new environment than to demigrate and lose all the data transactions completed under the new technology.
- 2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades (page 196)