English Dictionary

DISBAR (disbarred, disbarring)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: disbarred  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, disbarring  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does disbar mean? 

DISBAR (verb)
  The verb DISBAR has 1 sense:

1. remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official actionplay

  Familiarity information: DISBAR used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISBAR (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they disbar  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it disbars  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: disbarred  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: disbarred  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: disbarring  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The corrupt lawyer was disbarred

Hypernyms (to "disbar" is one way to...):

disqualify (declare unfit)

Domain category:

law; practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

disbarment (the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law)


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