elimination has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law,mathematics,biology
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[ noun ] the act of removing or getting rid of something

Synonyms

riddance

Used in print

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

Our suspicions eventually centered , by the process of elimination , on a grocer 's boy , a thoroughly bad_hat , who delivered cartons to the people overhead .

Related terms

removal simplification rid

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[ noun ] analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives

Related terms

analysis

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[ noun ] (mathematics) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

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removal eliminate

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[ noun ] (biology) the bodily process of discharging waste matter
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) the murder of a competitor

Synonyms

liquidation

Related terms

murder liquidate

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