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expellee

expellee

7.4
A person forced to leave an organization or job for breaking rules
  • noun
  • /ɛkˈspɛliː/
  • Formal
translation icon : expulsado
  • After the scandal, the school's expellee faced challenges adjusting to life outside the institution.

Examples

  • The organization decided to hold a meeting to address the grievances of the recent expellee.

  • One of our biggest donors this year was an expellee who thought for 30 years we didn't care.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The expellee was grateful to find a new community that welcomed him with open arms.

Surface Forms

expellee singular
expellees plural

Morphology

expellee = expel (transparent) = expel + ee

The meaning is a direct patient/person-of action formation: someone who has been expelled (expel + -ee) and follows a productive pattern (e.g., employee, evacuee).

Etymology

Expellee comes from expel 'to drive out' plus the ending -ee 'person who receives the action', the same ending you see in employee. So an expellee is someone who has been driven out of an organization or official position.