expulsion

See also: expulsión

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French expulsion, from Latin expulsio, expulsionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspʌlʃən/

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

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)
• Bulgarian: отстраняване (bg) n (otstranjavane), изгонване (bg) n (izgonvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開除／开除 (zh) (kāichú), 开除 (zh) (kāichú), 驅逐／驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú), 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
• Esperanto: forpelo
• French: expulsion (fr) f
• Georgian: გაძევება (gaʒeveba)
• German: Entfernung (de) f, Vertreibung (de) f, Ausweisung f
• Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí)

  Ancient: ἔξωσμα n (éxōsma)

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• Hungarian: kiutasítás (hu), kitoloncolás (hu)
• 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)
• Latin: expulsiō f, exactiō f
• Maori: pananga, peinga
• Norwegian: utvist

  Bokmål: utdrivelse m

• Persian: اخراج (fa) (exrāǰ)
• 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 (lâi-ɔ̀ɔk)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expulsio, expulsionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spyl.sjɔ̃/

Noun

expulsion f (plural expulsions)

1. expulsion

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   Mass expulsions are almost invariably unjust and inhumane.

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.