Meaning | The act of forcing out someone or something. |
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Synonyms | ejection, exclusion, expulsion |
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Narrower | barring, blackball | The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto |
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defenestration | The act of throwing someone or something out of a window |
deportation | The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien |
ostracism | The act of excluding someone from society by general consent |
ouster, ousting | The act of ejecting someone or forcing them out |
Broader | banishment, proscription | rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone |
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Spanish | exclusión, expulsión |
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Catalan | exclusió, expulsió |
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