migrate

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
migrate /mʌɪˈgreɪt, ˈmʌɪgreɪt/

▶verb

• 1 (of an animal) move from one habitat to another according to the seasons.

• 2 (of a person) move to a new area in order to find work.

• 3 move from one part of something to another.

  ■ Computing transfer or cause to transfer from one system to another.

– derivatives
migration /-ˈgreɪʃ(ə)n/ noun,
migrational adjective,
migrator noun,
migratory /ˈmʌɪgrət(ə)ri, mʌɪˈgreɪt(ə)ri/ adjective.

– origin C17: from L. migrat-, migrare ‘move, shift’.