Removal - English meaning

noun

The action of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

Usage examples:

The abolition of the death penalty

noun

The official ending of an activity or custom

noun

The complete ending of an activity or custom by law or official action

Usage examples:

The party supports the abolition of tax relief on pension funds.

noun

The action of taking or seizing someone's property with authority; seizure.

Usage examples:

A court ordered the confiscation of her property

noun

The act of confiscating a possession from someone (= taking it away as a punishment) or an example of this

Usage examples:

There was a record number of confiscations by customs officers last year., penalties range from 3 m…

noun

The removal or obliteration of written or printed matter, especially by drawing a line through it.

Usage examples:

We can agree the deletion of the second paragraph

noun

A part removed from a written or electronic text, or the act of removing such a part

Usage examples:

[ c ] you will have to make some deletions to cut the article to 3000 words.

noun

The act of removing something that is written or printed in a document or saved on a computer

Usage examples:

Three incorrect log-in attempts will result in system shutdown and deletion of all files., these ar…

phrasal verb

To get rid of or destroy something

Usage examples:

The governor is proposing to do away with the state transportation department.

verb

Erase (a mark) from a surface.

Usage examples:

With time, the words are effaced by the rain

verb

Present participle of efface

Usage examples:

The whole country had tried to efface the memory of the old dictatorship.

verb

To remove something intentionally

Usage examples:

The whole country had tried to efface the memory of the old dictatorship.

noun

The complete removal or destruction of something.

Usage examples:

The elimination of extreme poverty is a key objective

noun

The process of removing something

Usage examples:

The elimination of disease/pain, their elimination from the competition, we eventually found the an…

noun

By removing from several possible answers the ones that are unlikely to be correct until only one is left

Usage examples:

We eventually found the answer by a process of elimination.

verb

Rub out or remove (writing or marks).

Usage examples:

Graffiti had been erased from the wall

verb

Present participle of erase

Usage examples:

It's in pencil so you can just erase anything that's wrong., a virus erased my hard disk., he is de…

verb

To remove something, especially a pencil mark by rubbing it

Usage examples:

It's in pencil so you can just erase anything that's wrong.

noun

The removal of writing, recorded material, or data.

Usage examples:

The judges recorded their diving scores on cardboard "with a lot of erasure," she said.

noun

The act of removing a pencil mark by rubbing it

Usage examples:

What happens when a voter marks more than one candidate, then tries to correct the mistake through …

noun

The act of removing recordings or information from a magnetic tape or disk

Usage examples:

The erasure of police audiotapes, common causes of data loss include accidental erasure, worms, and…

adjective

In motion.

Usage examples:

A fast-moving river

verb

Go in a specified direction or manner; change position.

Usage examples:

She moved to the door

noun

The act or process of someone going to live or work in a different place, or of a company taking all or part of its business to a different place

Usage examples:

Any moving expenses will be paid by the company.

noun

The action or fact of obliterating or being obliterated; total destruction.

Usage examples:

Headlines about the obliteration of the green belt

noun

The action of removing all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen

Usage examples:

The war resulted in the obliteration of hundreds of villages., the reef faces obliteration in the n…

adjective

Changing, especially unpredictably.

Usage examples:

Diverse districts with shifting demographics

verb

Move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance.

Usage examples:

A team from the power company came to shift the cables away from the house

adjective

Changing all the time

Usage examples:

Our marketing needs to keep up with shifting consumer profiles.

verb

Move from one place to another.

Usage examples:

He intends to transfer the fund's assets to the treasury

noun

An act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.

Usage examples:

A transfer of wealth to the eu's poorer nations

verb

Move from one place to another

verb

Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.

Usage examples:

The bulk of freight traffic was transported by lorry

noun

A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place.

Usage examples:

Many possess their own forms of transport

noun

An overwhelmingly strong emotion.

Usage examples:

Art can send people into transports of delight

verb

Pull (something, especially a tree or plant) out of the ground.

Usage examples:

The elephant's trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees

verb

To pull a plant including its roots out of the ground

Usage examples:

He had been with the team six years and didn't wish to uproot his family to play in a different city.

noun

The action of withdrawing something.

Usage examples:

The withdrawal of legal aid

noun

An act of taking something back, removing something, or moving something back

Usage examples:

[ c ] a troop withdrawal, [ c ] he had made several large withdrawals from his bank account (= he h…

noun

The act of taking money out of an account, or the amount of money taken

Usage examples:

The savings account only allows you to make three withdrawals a year., there's a cash withdrawal li…