strike off


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strike off

vb (tr)
1. to remove or erase from (a list, record, etc) by or as if by a stroke of the pen
2. (adverb) to cut off or separate by or as if by a blow: she was struck off from the inheritance.
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Verb 1. strike off - remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"
take away, take out - take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
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Translations

w>strike off

vt sep
(= cut off) → abschlagen
(= remove) (from list) → (aus)streichen ; solicitor → die Lizenz entziehen (+dat); doctor → die Zulassung entziehen (+dat); (from price) → abziehen (prep obj von); to be struck off (Brit Med, Jur) → die Zulassung verlieren
(= print) → drucken ; to strike off a proof → einen Bürstenabzug machen
vi (= set off) → sich auf den Weg machen ; (road etc also) → abbiegen
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During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husband's head next day.
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Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left.
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Meesia Limited Voluntary Strike Off Process CRO No.
Meesia Limited Voluntary Strike Off [...]; Public Notices
A proposal to strike off one of the companies that make up Coventry City FC has been discontinued.
Coventry City company no longer under threat from Government action; Sky Blues Sports and Leisure was at risk of being struck off
According to online documents at Companies House, an application was made to "strike off " and dissolve Regal Pawn Ltd in November last year.
SHOW'S OVER; Sudden closure of pawn firm which had its own TV series

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