Synonyms for expulsion
ɪkˈspʌl ʃənex·pul·sion

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1. expulsionnoun

   Antonyms:
   impulsion

2. expulsionnoun

   The scandal involved every member of the high school's football team resulting in a flurry of expulsions, starting with the quarterback.

   Antonyms:
   impulsion

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1. expulsion

   Synonyms:
   departure, egress, ejection, exclusion, exit, refusal, rejection, withdrawal

   Antonyms:
   access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, door, doorway, entrance, entrée, entry, gate, gateway, ingress, inlet, introduction, opening, penetration, portal

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1. ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddancenoun

   the act of forcing out someone or something

   "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"

   Synonyms:
   exception, ejection, riddance, extrusion, censure, excommunication, forcing out, elimination, projection, exclusion, elision

2. extrusion, expulsionnoun

   squeezing out by applying pressure

   "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple"

   Synonyms:
   exclusion, protrusion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, ejection, bump, bulge, extrusion, protuberance, gibbosity, riddance, hump, projection, forcing out, swelling, excrescence

3. expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing outnoun

   the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

   Synonyms:
   jutting, ejection, extrusion, riddance, jut, forcing out, protrusion, sound projection, projection, project, exclusion, acoustic projection

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1. expulsionnoun

   Synonyms:
   expelling, driving out

2. expulsionnoun

   Synonyms:
   ejection, extrusion, banishment

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1. expulsionnoun

   Synonyms:
   expelling, ejection, debarment, exclusion

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1. List of paraphrases for "expulsion":

   deportation, eviction, removal, expelling, eject, 'expulsion, expel, expulsions, banishment, evictions, expelled, deporting, dismissal, remoteness, extrusion, deported, ouster, deport, refoulement, exclusion, deportations, non-expulsion

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1. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

2. State Department spokesman John Kirby:

   We've made clear our concerns about this expulsion, we believe it was unwarranted and inconsistent with the positive and constructive agenda that we seek with the government of Nicaragua.

3. Max Stern:

   We can not help but think it not coincidental that the decision by Yale University officials to seek expulsion of the captain of Yale University basketball team followed by little more than a month the report of the Association of American Universities( AAU) which was highly critical of the incidence of sexual assault on the Yale University campus, and the Yale University President's promise, in response, to' redouble our efforts,' from what appears, Jack Montague has been pilloried as a' whipping boy' for a campus problem that has galvanized national attention.

4. Executive Director Kristen Amundson:

   But it is always better if school administrators use good judgment and discretion, that's how we end up not having to hear a case of a kindergartner who brought a little paring knife to school suddenly being recommended for expulsion for bringing a weapon to school.

5. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner:

   If the government in Athens does not finally do more to secure the outer borders, then we will have to openly discuss a temporary expulsion of Greece from the Schengen area, it is a myth that the Greek-Turkish border cannot be controlled.