Disband vs Disbar - What's the difference?
disband | disbar |
To break up or cause to cease to exist.
* Knolles
(obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
(obsolete) To divorce.
* Milton
(legal) to expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor ) of his or her status and privileges as such
to exclude someone from something
* 1896 , Two More Disbarred: Bloomingston and Lowney Out of College Athletics; Action Taken by Board of Control Last Night , Detroit Free Press, page
As verbs the difference between disband and disbar
is that disband is to break up or cause to cease to exist while disbar is (legal) to expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor ) of his or her status and privileges as such.disband
English
Verb
(en verb)- The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.
- They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.
- And therefore she ought to be disbanded .
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disbar
English
Verb
(disbarr)6
- The friends of Holmes have been criticising the action of the board in disbarring him on the ground that it was too severe...