🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

destituição

Pronunciation / Transliteration: destituição

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Deposition/ˌdɛpəˈzɪʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A destituição do presidente foi votada pelo parlamento."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of deposing someone, especially a monarch.

    "The sudden deposition of the king shocked the nation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Old French deposicion or Latin depositio(n-), from deponere 'lay down'.

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