His expulsion from university was occasioned by his academic misconduct.
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Expulsion
//ɪkˈspʌlʃən//
Synonyms for "expulsion" (134 found)
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54 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἔξωσμα noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Arabic
1 entries- إِبْعَاد noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Armenian
2 entries- արտաքսում noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- վտարում noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qovma noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- qovulma noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изгонване noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- отстраняване noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 開除 /开除 noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- 驅逐 /驱逐 noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Danish
4 entries- bortvisning (fra skole el.lign.) noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- eksklusion (fx af forening) noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- relegering (fra universitet) noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- udstødelse (af fx forening) noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Dutch
1 entries- uitwijzing noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Esperanto
1 entries- forpelo noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
French
1 entries- expulsion noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Georgian
1 entries- გაძევება noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
German
3 entries- Ausweisung noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- Entfernung noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- Vertreibung noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Greek
1 entries- αποβολή noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Hindi
1 entries- निष्कासन noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Hungarian
3 entries- eltanácsolás noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- kitoloncolás noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- kiutasítás noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Italian
1 entries- espulsione noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Japanese
2 entries- 排除 noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- 追放 noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Korean
1 entries- 추방 noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Ladino
1 entries- גירוש noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Latin
2 entries- exactiō noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- expulsiō noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Māori
2 entries- pananga noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- peinga noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Norwegian
1 entries- utvist noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- utdrivelse noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اخراج noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Persian
1 entries- اخراج noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Polish
1 entries- wydalenie noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Portuguese
1 entries- expulsão noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Russian
4 entries- изгна́ние noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- исключе́ние noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- отстране́ние noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- удале́ние noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Spanish
1 entries- expulsión noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Swedish
3 entries- relegering noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- uteslutning noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- utvisning noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Thai
1 entries- ไล่ออก noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Turkish
2 entries- kovma noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
- kovulma noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Yiddish
1 entries- גירוש noun (the act of expelling or the state of being expelled)
Sample sentences
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Spanish history is replete with official anti-Semitism: the 14th-century massacres of Jews in Seville, Córdoba and elsewhere, incited by a prominent Catholic clergyman; the Spanish Inquisition and forced religious conversions, beginning in the 15th century; and the expulsion of an estimated 70,000 Jews by decree of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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I can see how kicking a teacher could lead to detention, or even expulsion, but not juvenile detention.
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According to the Academy's code of conduct, such consequences could entail "suspension of membership or expulsion from membership."
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