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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#m1)

2) Forcing something out, such as air from the lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#x1)
- He faced expulsion for bullying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#x2)
- The history book told of the expulsion of a whole people from their land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#x3)
- The cough was a quick expulsion of air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#x4)
- The club voted for her expulsion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#x5)
- Expulsion is more serious than suspension. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expulsion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expulsion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.