deposeverb [ T ]
uk/dɪˈpəʊz/us/dɪˈpoʊz/to remove someone important from a powerful position:
Gingrich was deposed as Speaker of the House after the election in 1998.
King Charles I was deposed from the English throne in 1646.
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Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- get the push idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- grass
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- lay sb off
- pension
- relieve
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- shakeout
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