expulsion

See also: expulsión

English

Etymology

From Middle English expulsioun, from Old French expulsion, from Latin expulsio, expulsionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspʌlʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

expulsion (countable and uncountable, plural expulsions)

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

Derived terms

• antiexpulsion
• chemoexpulsion
• expulsionary
• expulsionism
• expulsionist
• nonexpulsion
• reexpulsion

Related terms

• expel

Translations

the act of expelling or the state of being expelled

• Arabic: إِبْعَاد (ar) m (ʔibʕād)
• Armenian: արտաքսում (hy) (artakʻsum), վտարում (hy) (vtarum)
• Azerbaijani: qovulma, qovma
• Bulgarian: отстраняване (bg) n (otstranjavane), изгонване (bg) n (izgonvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開除 / 开除 (zh) (kāichú), 驅逐 / 驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú)

• Danish: udstødelse c (af fx forening), eksklusion c (fx af forening), udvisning (da) c (af et land), bortvisning c (fra skole el.lign.), relegering c (fra universitet)
• Dutch: uitwijzing (nl)
• Esperanto: forpelo
• Finnish: karkotus (fi)
• French: expulsion (fr) f
• Georgian: გაძევება (gaʒeveba)
• German: Entfernung (de) f, Vertreibung (de) f, Ausweisung (de) f
• Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí)

  Ancient Greek: ἔξωσμα n (éxōsma)

• Hindi: निष्कासन m (niṣkāsan)
• Hungarian: kiutasítás (hu), kitoloncolás (hu), (from school) eltanácsolás
• Italian: espulsione (it) f
• Japanese: 排除 (ja) (はいじょ, haijo), 追放 (ja) (ついほう, tsuihō)
• Korean: 추방 (ko) (chubang)
• Ladino: גירוש (gerush)
• Latin: expulsiō f, exactiō f
• Māori: pananga, peinga
• Norwegian: utvist

  Bokmål: utdrivelse m

• Persian: اخراج (fa) (exrâj)
• Polish: wydalenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: expulsão (pt) f
• Russian: изгна́ние (ru) n (izgnánije), исключе́ние (ru) n (isključénije), отстране́ние (ru) n (otstranénije), удале́ние (ru) n (udalénije)
• Spanish: expulsión (es) f
• Swedish: utvisning (sv) c, relegering c, uteslutning (sv) c
• Thai: ไล่ออก (th) (lâi-ɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: kovma (tr), kovulma (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: اخراج (ihrâc) (act of expelling)

• Yiddish: גירוש m (girush)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expulsiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spyl.sjɔ̃/

Noun

expulsion f (plural expulsions)

1. expulsion, eviction
   • 1918, Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎^[1]:

     Elle s'étonnait qu'on fût scandalisé des expulsions des jésuites, disant que cela s'était toujours fait, même sous la monarchie, même en Espagne.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (sports) sending-off, red card, dismissal

Related terms

• expulser

Further reading

• “expulsion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

expulsion f (plural expulsions)

1. expulsion

Related terms

• expulsar

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[2], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2026, page 310