expulsion

«expulsion» in Mova's school dictionary: Making someone leave a school, club or country for ever… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an expulsion, expulsions; expulsion — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Making someone leave a school, club or country for ever, as a punishment: expulsion from school. tree →

2) Forcing something out, such as air from the lungs. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school rules expulsion is the most serious punishment — being sent away for good; in history people were expelled from countries; in science air is pushed out of the lungs. Phrases: «expulsion from school», «face expulsion», «the expulsion of air».

examples

• Bringing a knife to school can lead to expulsion. tree →
• He faced expulsion for bullying. tree →
• The history book told of the expulsion of a whole people from their land. tree →
• The cough was a quick expulsion of air. tree →
• The club voted for her expulsion. tree →
• Expulsion is more serious than suspension. tree →

note

From the verb «expel» (expels, expelled, expelling). Expulsion = sent away for ever; suspension = sent away for a short time. Spelled -sion.

In the corpora

• Expulsion, being sent away from a school for good, is very rare and serious.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «expulsion» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.