expulsion
expulsion
/ɪkˈspʌlʃn/
1 uncountable, countable expulsion (from…) the act of forcing somebody to leave a place; the act of expelling somebody These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country.
Troops are engaged in the expulsion of enemy forces from the area.
Collocations
adjective
verb + expulsion
preposition
expulsion from
phrases
grounds for expulsion
2 uncountable, countable expulsion (from…) the act of sending somebody away from a school or an organization, so that they can no longer belong to it; the act of expelling somebody The headteacher threatened the three girls with expulsion.
The club faces expulsion from the football league.
3 uncountable expulsion (from…) (formal) the act of sending or driving a substance out of your body or a container the expulsion of air from the lungs
Word Origin
late Middle English: from Latin expulsio(n-), from expellere ‘drive out’, from ex- ‘out’ + pellere ‘to drive’.