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elimination.

The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

11 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
  1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

    countable · uncountable
  2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.

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    Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.
  3. The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.

    countable · uncountable
  4. The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

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  5. The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.

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  6. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

    countable · uncountable
  7. The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

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Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

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