disbar
/dɪsˈbɑː
/verb (disbars, disbarring, disbarred) [with object]
1Expel (a barrister) from the Bar, so that they no longer have the right to practise law: a disciplinary tribunal directed that he should be disbarred...
- A lawyer who commits a felony and is disbarred is surely less deserving of our concern than an applicant who committed a similar crime years before studying law.
- An investigation revealed that 33 defendants sentenced to death had been represented by attorneys who had been disbarred or suspended.
- He blames his attorney, who was disbarred during the case, for that one.
2Exclude (someone) from something: competitors wearing rings will be disbarred from competition...
- This immediately disbarred him from continuing on his methadone programme.
- They would usually pass such reports to the General Teaching Council, who can warn, suspend or disbar teachers.
- The complaint focused on his unethical efforts to disbar his colleagues from international forums for daring to contradict his views.
Derivatives
disbarment
/ noun ...- So I've been thinking: shouldn't political science have its equivalent to disbarment or excommunication?
- And it's not a permanent disbarment; it's a chance to start over again and become productive members of society.
- I'm not sure the disbarment incrementally adds that much more to the punishment he's personally suffered.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in sense 2): from dis- 'away' + bar1.