expulsion

1 the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: ejection, exclusion, riddance]

2 squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple" [syn: extrusion]

3 the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn: projection, ejection, forcing out]

English

Noun

1. The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.

   The scandal involved every member of the high school's football team resulting in a flurry of expulsions, starting with the quarterback.

Antonyms

• impulsion

Related terms

• expel

Translations

Related:

Expulsion may refer to:

• Expulsion (academia), removing a student from a school or university
• Deportation, the expulsion of someone from a country
• Population transfer, the forced migration of people by the state
• Repatriation was a Soviet name for expulsion of Poles from the Soviet Union
• Expulsion from caucus

See also

• Banishment
• Exile
• Edict of Expulsion
• Alhambra decree
• Expulsion of moriscos (Spain) (See Morisco)
• Prussian deportations of 1885-1890

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