Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of expelling or driving out; a driving away by force; forcible ejection; compulsory dismissal; banishment: as, the expulsion of the Tarquins; the expulsion of morbid humors from the body; the expulsion of a student from a college, or of a member from a club.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.
- noun The state of being expelled or driven out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
expelling or the state of beingexpelled .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- noun squeezing out by applying pressure
- noun the act of forcing out someone or something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This would have resulted in expulsion from the vast majority nowadays especially since it is a real weapon, but the small town, southern school I attend couldn't care less.
Teen Suspended, Not Expelled, For Shooting Nerf Gun In School 2009
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This would have resulted in expulsion from the vast majority nowadays especially since it is a real weapon, but the small town, southern school I attend couldn't care less.
Teen Suspended, Not Expelled, For Shooting Nerf Gun In School 2009
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Campbell was the guy who criticised John Swinney's leadership for a prolonged period, ultimately resulting in expulsion from the party.
Prediction - West of Scotland Jeff 2007
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Take the anatomical changes in Hector here, produced by infusion of the lymph compound; in the main they may be characterized as the expulsion from the bones of mineral deposits and an infiltration of the muscular tissues.
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Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry.
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The school board members are blood-red conservatives, but this expulsion is purely political.
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The school board members are blood-red conservatives, but this expulsion is purely political.
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Assayas sees Carlos's greatest moment as containing the seed of his downfall: his storming of the Opec convention in Vienna in 1975 during which he and his gang took hostages but failed to carry out the secret plan of killing some of them – most prominently Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Yamani – a perceived failure of nerve that caused his expulsion from the PFLP.
Carlos – review Peter Bradshaw 2010
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In June, the director of the Ukraine branch of the German Christian Democrats 'Konrad Adenauer Foundation had to call upon German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office to intervene to prevent his expulsion from the country.
Save Ukraine's Democracy Yulia Tymoshenko 2010
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Brando grew up in Illinois, and after expulsion from a military academy, he dug ditches until his father offered to finance his education.
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