DISBARMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("disbarment" is a kind of...):

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

disbar (remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action)

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