Meaning of impeachment in English:
impeachment
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noun
mass noun1(especially in the US) a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.
‘the president is facing impeachment over the scandal’- ‘all impeachments shall be tried by the Senate’
- ‘Other presidents did worse and there were no exposes or impeachments.’
- ‘He finally resigned in order to avoid impeachment.’
- ‘The two men were warned by the government that they faced impeachment if they didn't step down.’
- ‘The impeachment of any president is highly unusual.’
- ‘Under the Constitution, impeachments are brought by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate.’
- ‘He has threatened to call for the impeachment of the president.’
- ‘It led to the impeachment of the state's attorney general and auditor and conviction of the Treasurer.’
- ‘Impeachment of a democratically elected leader should be employed only as a last resort.’
- ‘The panel considering impeachment heard from its first witnesses today, some of whom criticized the governor's conduct in years past.’
- ‘The president was facing impeachment.’
- 1.1 historical A charge of treason or another crime against the state.‘the king cynically abandoned him, encouraging his impeachment’
- ‘The impeachment failed despite his apparent guilt on some of the charges.’
- ‘Under impeachment he was confined in the Tower from 1679 to 1684.’
- ‘Impeachment by Parliament led to his banishment and murder at sea.’
- ‘Royal pardons were not to be issued against impeachments.’
- ‘They escaped impeachment only by making a very large loan to the Parliament at a crucial stage.’
2The action of calling into question the integrity or validity of something.
‘the prosecutor's detailed impeachment of the character witness’- ‘He called for the impeachment of him and other members of the court.’
- ‘It may bring a motion of impeachment.’
- ‘The impeachment was spawned by an accusation by his estranged drinking and gambling buddy.’
- ‘It did not really occur to them that a speaker might rise to become the ultimate beneficiary on the impeachment of the governor and his deputy.’
- ‘It is not clear what resulted from the demands for impeachment of the union leadership.’
- ‘The first part of his letter was a palpable impeachment of the ministry.’
- ‘He called for the impeachment of the Supreme Court justices.’
- ‘They found that a prosecutor's detailed, negative impeachment of the character witness outweighed that of the witness's positive character evidence.’
- ‘Their three colleagues now urged them to resign to avoid the impeachment which seemed destined otherwise to follow.’
- ‘There has been for some time evidence available sufficient to warrant impeachment on each of these grounds.’
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