Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being expelled or driven out: as, “acid expellable by heat,”
- Subject to expulsion: as, members of a club not expellable on account of political opinions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being expelled or driven out.
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- adjective Capable of being
expelled or driven out.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In some jurisdictions, carrying cough drops, wearing black lipstick or dying your hair blue are expellable offenses.
John W. Whitehead: Teaching School Children to Live in a Totalitarian Society 2009
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If it were my classroom, I'd make it an expellable offense to record without written permission.
"This is extremely rare for a teacher to get this blatantly evangelical." Ann Althouse 2006
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If it were my classroom, I'd make it an expellable offense to record without written permission.
"This is extremely rare for a teacher to get this blatantly evangelical." Ann Althouse 2006
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Pogo: If it were my classroom, I'd make it an expellable offense to record without written permission.
"This is extremely rare for a teacher to get this blatantly evangelical." Ann Althouse 2006
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So on this, the first Lady-Day on which the Durbeyfields were expellable, the house, being roomy, was required for a carter with a large family; and Widow Joan, her daughters Tess and 'Liza-Lu, the boy Abraham and the younger children, had to go elsewhere.
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So on this, the first Lady-Day on which the Durbeyfields were expellable, the house, being roomy, was required for a carter with a large family; and Widow Joan, her daughters Tess and 'Liza-Lu, the boy Abraham, and the younger children had to go elsewhere.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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Not all expellable offenses qualify for that kind of treatment, and some of the more serious rule infractions - for example, a serious violence or weapons incident - still can result in students being expelled.
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The district in 2002-03 started a program that provides an alternative to expulsion for the majority of expellable offenses.
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Not all expellable offenses qualify for that kind of treatment, and some of the more serious rule infractions - for example, a serious violence or weapons incident - still can result in students being expelled.
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The district in 2002-03 started a program that provides an alternative to expulsion for the majority of expellable offenses.
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