| Main Entry: | consignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entrusting, handing over |
Synonyms: |
assignment, committal, dispatch, distribution, relegation, sending shipment, transmittal |
Antonyms: |
holding, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | delegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
Synonyms: |
appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust |
| Notes: | a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
Antonyms: |
keeping |
| Main Entry: | deportation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishment |
Synonyms: |
displacement, eviction, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, ostracism, relegation, removal, transportation |
Antonyms: |
approval, permission |
| Main Entry: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
Synonyms: |
adjournment, banishment, bounce, brush-off, cold shoulder, congé, deportation, deposal, deposition, discharge, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expatriation, expulsion, freedom, freeing, housecleaning, kiss-off, layoff, liberation, marching orders, notice, old heave-ho, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip, relegation, removal, suspension |
Antonyms: |
acceptance, appointment, employment, hiring, maintainance, retention, welcome |
| Main Entry: | disposal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parting with or throwing something away |
Synonyms: |
auctioning, bartering, chucking, clearance, conveyance, demolishing, demolition, destroying, destruction, discarding, dispatching, dispensation, disposition, dumping, ejection, jettison, jettisoning, junking, relegation, relinquishment, removal, riddance, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, selling, trading, transfer, transference, vending |
Antonyms: |
hold, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | exclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion; forbiddance |
Synonyms: |
ban, bar, blackball, blockade, boycott, coventry, cut, debarment, debarring, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, occlusion, omission, ostracism, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, proscription, refusal, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto |
Antonyms: |
acceptance, addition, admittance, allowance, inclusion, incorporation, welcome |
| Main Entry: | exile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deportation from a place |
Synonyms: |
banishment, diaspora, dispersion, displacement, exclusion, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, migration, ostracism, proscription, relegation, scattering, separation |
| Main Entry: | expulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishing |
Synonyms: |
banishment, boot, bounce, debarment, deportment, discharge, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, dispossession, driving out, ejection, eviction, exclusion, exile, expatriation, extrusion, forcing out, ostracism, ouster, ousting, proscription, purge, relegation, removal, rush, suspension |
Antonyms: |
import, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change of possession |
Synonyms: |
alteration, assignment, conduction, convection, deportation, displacement, move, relegation, relocation, removal, shift, substitution, transference, translation, transmission, transmittal, transposition, variation |
Antonyms: |
hold, keeping |
| Main Entry: | expulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
deciduous, emitted, emitting, eructed, evolved, evolving, expellable, exsputory, extracted
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