The act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office.

synoniem: deposition.

Roget 738: laxity; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration etc. (lenity) 740; freedom etc. 748.    anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening etc. v.; remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen [Lat.], misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination etc. (disobedience) 742; lynch law etc. (illegality) 964; nihilism, reign of violence.    [Deprivation of power] dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 756: abrogation, annulment, nullification, recision; vacatur [Lat.]; canceling etc. v.; cancel; revocation, revokement^†; repeal, rescission, defeasance.    dismissal, conge [Fr.], demission^†; bounce [U.S.]; deposal, deposition; dethronement; disestablishment, disendowment^†; deconsecration; sack [Slang], walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket; yellow cover [Slang].    abolition, abolishment; dissolution.    counter order, countermand; repudiation, retraction, retractation^†; recantation etc. (tergiversation) 607; abolitionist.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: schorsing
Pools: detronizacja