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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disbar
verb
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▪ Estrada was fired from his job as an assistant U.S. attorney and disbarred.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disbar

Disbar \Dis*bar"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disbarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Disbarring.] (Law) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
--Abbott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disbar

"deprive of the privileges of a barrister," 1630s; see dis- "opposite of" + bar in the legal sense. Related: Disbarred; disbarring; disbarment.

Wiktionary
disbar

vb. 1 (context legal English) to expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or ''counselor'') of his or her status and privileges as such 2 to exclude someone from something

WordNet
disbar
  1. v. remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"

  2. [also: disbarring, disbarred]

Usage examples of "disbar".

Senatus Consultum Ultimum remains in effect, you are disbarred from all meetings and all magisterial business.

The man who had lived here, reported to have just been murdered, was presumably Gossage, a disgraced, disbarred American anesthesiologist who had some connection with Sendero Luminoso.

I was also disbarred from working in any State enterprise, and Social security was a joke, the PSP apparatchiks had taken it over, head to toe, by the time I was demobbed.

I was a bad boy who should be either(1) disbarred permanently, or (2) suspended for many years, and/or (3)publicly reprimanded.

Once he had been an Income-Tax Ac countant, disbarred and convicted on three counts of im personating an attorney when he took the liberty of mak ing changes in a client's lease.

And not just any Democratic president, but one who was impeached, held in contempt by a federal judge, and disbarred by the Supreme Court.

It is an arresting fact that an impeached, disgraced, disbarred Democratic president successfully rallied liberals to his cause merely by calling his opponents "right-wing Republicans.

Who the hell else have I been trying to get disbarred for the past year and a half?

I'll tell you right now that him getting disbarred is a load off my mind—for one very simple reason.

You can be disbarred at thirty or thirty-five and still get by, but when you’re disbarred at fifty and your trial is given national press along with a jail sentence, you’d be shocked at how your options disappear—even for a learned man.

Jacques rose quickly from the table to replenish his drink, his eyes warily on the former, disbarred judge.

Two feisty individuals and an over-imaginative disbarred judge are more than an Ontario ranch boy can handle.

I'm sure nothing will make you stop work, unless you're disbarred, and think how wonderful that will be for our marriage.

Over cocktails he said to Jennifer, "I once wanted to see you disbarred because I thought you had disgraced our profession.

And once more my disbarred lawyer dropped into poetry: "'ROLL ON, THOU DEEP AND DARK BLUE OCEAN, ROLL!