Expulsion

Expulsion may refer to:

  • Expulsion (education), removing a student from a school or university
  • Expulsion from the United States Congress, the most serious form of disciplinary action that can be taken against a Member of Congress
  • Deportation, the expulsion of someone from a country
  • Population transfer, the forced migration of people by the state
  • Repatriation, return of refugees or soldiers to their homes, most notably following a war
  • The Expulsion (film), a 1923 silent German film
  • Expulsion (band), Swedish doom/death metal band active 1988–1998
  • Fetal expulsion, resulting in childbirth or Miscarriage
  • Ejection (sports), when a player of a team is ejected from the game for violation of rules or misconduct
See Category:Forced migration for specific expulsions.
  • Banishment (disambiguation)
  • Exile, means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country), while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return. It can be a form of punishment and solitude

Famous quotes containing the word expulsion:

    “The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)