anti-immigration

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

anti- +‎ immigration

Adjective

anti-immigration (comparative more anti-immigration, superlative most anti-immigration)

  1. (politics) Opposing immigration.

Usage notes
  • anti-immigration is several times more common than antiimmigration in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

Antonyms
  • pro-immigration, proimmigration

Translations

References
  1. (antiimmigration*6),anti-immigration at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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