banishment - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someonerejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection" disbarment - the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law expulsion, riddance, ejection, exclusion - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" deportation, expatriation, exile, transportation - the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life" excommunication, excision - the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society relegation - mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position; "he has been relegated to a post in Siberia" |