What is the difference between disbar and debar?
disbar | debar |
(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
To exclude or shut out; to bar.
(US, legal) To prohibit a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with an application for approval of a new drug from participating in future applications.
As verbs the difference between disbar and debar
is that disbar is 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 while debar is to exclude or shut out; to bar.As a proper noun Debar is
a city in the west of the Republic of Macedonia.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...