disbar
[dis-bahr]
- to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
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Origin of disbar
Synonyms
See more synonyms for disbar on Thesaurus.comdebar, suspend, exclude.
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Examples from the Web for disbarred
Contemporary Examples
In the end, Mangum was discredited, Nifong was disbarred, and the state's attorney general proclaimed the boys' innocence.
Speed Read: The Juiciest Bits From a New Book on the Duke Lacrosse ScandalWilliam O’Connor
April 8, 2014
In 1980 she was charged with professional incompetence and practising without chambers; she was disbarred three years later.
He withheld the salaries of parliamentarians who refused to rubberstamp his laws, and lawyers who challenged him were disbarred.
Forget Kim Jong Un—China’s New Favorite Dictator Is Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko.Kapil Komireddi
January 28, 2014
When Chen Guangcheng was tried in court in 2006, his lawyers were beaten, detained, and disbarred.
According to one report, their lawyer was disbarred two years after their case was lost for "lack of diligence" in other cases.
Historical Examples
After their marriage the dentist is disbarred from practice.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and EssaysWilla Cather
His behaviour was so extreme that in 1874 he was disbenched and disbarred by his Inn.
"I am disbarred, I have no trade, I cannot dig, to beg——" he paused in the citation.
The WreckerRobert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
By reason of his physique he was disbarred from mere manual labor, and that haven of the failure—the army.
Garrison's FinishW. B. M. Ferguson
Such an admission made by a lawyer would be ground for having him disbarred.
Twentieth Century SocialismEdmond Kelly
disbar
- to deprive of the status of barrister; expel from the Bar
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usage
Disbar is sometimes wrongly used where debar is meant: he was debarred (not disbarred) from attending meetings
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Word Origin and History for disbarred
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