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Rustication

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Residence in the country. uncountable
  2. 2
    banishment into the country wordnet
  3. 3
    The act or process of rusticating. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    temporary dismissal of a student from a university wordnet
  5. 5
    The result of having been rusticated. countable, uncountable

    ""You don't think he'll rusticate us, or any thing of that sort?" said Tom, who had felt horrible twinges at the captain's picture of the effects of rustication on ordinary mortals."

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  1. 6
    the action of retiring to and living in the country wordnet
  2. 7
    The process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country. UK, countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner wordnet
  4. 9
    the condition naturally attaching to life in the country wordnet

Etymology

From rusticate + -ion.

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