expungement
English
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Noun
[edit]expungement (countable and uncountable, plural expungements)
- The act of expunging.
- (US, Canada) The process by which the record of a criminal conviction is erased, destroyed or sealed.
- 1979 April 7, David Brill, “BPL Arrests: A Year Later”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
- In a memorandum in support of the expungement motion, Atty. John Ward argues that the retention of his clients' records "is and will be of great harm to them."
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