永えい住じゅう

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永住する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

permanent residence; settling permanently

Refers to living in a place permanently, often used in legal, immigration, or lifestyle contexts. As a suru-verb, it is intransitive.

〈場ば所しょ〉に永えい住じゅうするto settle permanently in a place
彼かれはオーストラリアに永えい住じゅうすることを決きめた。
He decided to settle permanently in Australia.
永えい住じゅう権けんを取しゅ得とくするto obtain permanent residency
彼かの女じょはカナダの永えい住じゅう権けんを取しゅ得とくした。
She obtained permanent residency in Canada.
永えい住じゅうを望のぞむto wish to settle permanently
多おおくの移い住じゅう者しゃがこの国くにでの永えい住じゅうを望のぞんでいる。
Many migrants wish to settle permanently in this country.

定てい住じゅう
定住 means settling down in a fixed place without necessarily implying lifelong permanence, while 永住 stresses living somewhere for the rest of one's life.
移い住じゅうN1
移住 focuses on the act of relocating or migrating to a new place, whereas 永住 focuses on the resulting state of living there permanently.
居きょ住じゅうN1
居住 is the general, neutral word for residing somewhere without any implication of permanence, unlike 永住 which specifically means residing forever.
永えい住じゅう権けんN1
永住 is the general act or state of permanently residing somewhere, while 永住権 refers specifically to the legal right that allows one to do so.

移い民みんN2
移民 refers to immigrants or the act of immigrating (movement of people across borders), while 永住 refers to the state of settling permanently once already living somewhere.
永えい久きゅうN3
永住 specifically means 'permanent residence' (living somewhere permanently), while 永久 is the broader abstract noun for permanence or eternity in general.

Compound of 永 (long, eternal) and 住 (live, dwell). The meaning is transparently 'to live forever (in a place)'.