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Ostracism synonyms

ŏs'trə-sĭz'əm
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segregation
(Genetics) The separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis so that a particular gamete receives only one member of a pair of characters
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  1. (Genetics) The separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis so that a particular gamete receives only one member of a pair of characters
  2. A segregating or being segregated; specif., the policy or practice of compelling racial groups to live apart from each other, go to separate schools, use separate social facilities, etc.
  3. The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
elimination
The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
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  1. The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
  2. (Accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
  3. (Logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
eviction
The action of removing a tenant or other occupant from real property. The action of removing a tenant or other occupant from real property.
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  1. The action of removing a tenant or other occupant from real property. The action of removing a tenant or other occupant from real property.
deportation
The act or an instance of deporting.
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  1. The act or an instance of deporting.
  2. The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
  3. The act of expelling an illegal alien, or someone whose immigration status has expired or been revoked, to a foreign country. The act of expelling an illegal alien, or someone whose immigration status has expired or been revoked, to a foreign country.
exile
One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
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  1. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
  2. The span of time in exile
  3. The condition or period of self-imposed absence from one's country or home:
expatriation
Forced expulsion of from one's native land to another
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  1. Forced expulsion of from one's native land to another
extradition
The surrender of an individual by one nation or state to another nation or state where that individual is sought for trial or punishment for the commission of a crime.
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  1. The surrender of an individual by one nation or state to another nation or state where that individual is sought for trial or punishment for the commission of a crime.
  2. The act of transferring a captured fugitive to the jurisdiction where he or she is sought; the legal process for such a transfer. The act of transferring a captured fugitive to the jurisdiction where he or she is sought; the legal process for such a transfer.
  3. The act of extraditing, as according to procedures established in an existing treaty, a person accused or convicted of a crime
transportation
The work or business of conveying passengers or goods
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  1. The work or business of conveying passengers or goods
  2. The business of conveying passengers or goods:
  3. A kind of criminal punishment, whereby a convicted criminal is sent out of the country to an offshore penal colony for a specified period of time. See also deport and deportation.
Find another word for ostracism. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ostracism, like: banishment, segregation, elimination, eviction, exclusion, exile, removal, banishment, deportation, exile and expatriation.

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  • The whites who were responsible for the conduct of the blacks were warned or driven away by social and business ostracism or by violence.

  • The conflict between the two leaders ended in the ostracism of Aristides, at a date variously given between 485 and 482.

  • It is an extraordinary fact that, if ostracism was introduced in 598 B.C. for the purpose of expelling Hipparchus it was not till twenty years later that he was condemned.

  • 4, and note that in Athens, ostracism gratuitously anticipated a crime which, if committed, would have been punishable in the popular Heliaea.

  • Aristotle, admitting its usefulness, rightly describes ostracism as in theory tyrannical; Montesquieu (Esprit des lois, xii.

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