1400-1500Latinexpulsio, from expulsus, past participle of expellere; ➔ EXPEL
Examples
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Deportation orders do not have to state the reasons for expulsion.
If you did, you risked verbal or physical abuse, derision and expulsion.
Rapid movement in cephalopods is achieved by expulsion of water from a muscular funnel beneath the head.
The expulsions seem certain to resume, probably before Christmas.
The defeat is the second inflicted on the Government since the expulsion of hereditary peers.
The latest incident came to light when pupils were overheard discussing the expulsions at the Rising Sun pub in nearby Newbury.
Violate the rules, and the price is expulsion.
1the act of forcing someone to leave a place → expelexpulsion of the expulsion of the protestersexpulsion from his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 19642the act of stopping someone from going to the school where they were studying or from being part of the organization where they worked → expel: The headmaster threatened the boys with expulsion.expulsion of the expulsion from the party of its former leader3the act of forcing air, water, gas etc out of something → expel