Noun

(en noun)

The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.

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

Noun

The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.

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(obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out.

* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.6:

For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].

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