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rustications

rustications is the plural of rustication.

Meaning of rustication

Noun

rustication (countable and uncountable, plural rustications)

  1. (uncountable) Residence in the country.
  2. The act or process of rusticating.
  3. The result of having been rusticated.
    • "You don't think he'll rusticate us, or any thing of that sort?" said Tom, who had felt horrible twinges at the captain's picture of the effects of rustication on ordinary mortals.1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Captain’s Notions”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 192
  4. (UK) The process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country.

Questions about rustications

What is rustications the plural of?
Rustications is the plural of rustication.

Words near rustications in the dictionary

  1. rusticated
  2. rusticates
  3. rusticating
  4. rusticatio
  5. rustication
  6. rustications
  7. rusticator
  8. rusticators
  9. rusticise
  10. rusticised
  11. rusticises

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