Proscription
1. The act of proscribing; prohibition.
2. The condition of having been proscribed; outlawry.
Usage : The proscription against bicycles and skateboards is intended to make the plaza a more pedestrian-friendly place.
The meeting was convened to discuss her proscription by the party’s leaders.
Boycott
To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion.
Usage : The main opposition parties are boycotting the elections.
You have seen that you were beaten soundly at your old tactics of strike and boycott.
Embargo
1. A government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
2. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation.
3. A prohibition; a ban.
Usage : The UN has imposed an arms embargo against the country.
They embargoed oil shipments to the US.
The company imposed an embargo on all raw material coming from the war-torn countries.
Censure
1. An expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism.
2. An official rebuke, as by a legislature of one of its members.
Usage : I would not censure him for airing his views.
It is a controversial policy which has attracted international censure.
Interdict
1. To prohibit or place under an ecclesiastical or legal sanction.
2. To forbid or debar, especially authoritatively.
3.
a. To cut or destroy (a line of communication) by firepower so as to halt an enemy’s advance.
b. To confront and halt the activities, advance, or entry of.
Usage : Troops could be ferried in to interdict drug shipments.
The National Trust has placed an interdict on jet-skis.
Ostracism
1.
a. The act of banishing or excluding.
b. Banishment or exclusion from a group; disgrace.
2. In Athens and other cities of ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
Usage : In earlier days unmarried mothers suffered social ostracism.
John was ostracised from the group due to his attitude.
Excommunication
1. The act of excommunicating.
2. The state of being excommunicated.
3. A formal ecclesiastical censure that deprives a person of the right to belong to a church.
Usage : Excommunication was a frequent tool used by the catholic church in earlier times to expel a rebel voice from the society.
Expatriation
1. To send into exile.
2. To remove (oneself) from residence in one’s native land.
Usage : John is the lead case, in which the Court found unconstitutional expatriation for the act of voting in a foreign political election.
The heavy influx of foreign expatriates is due to the lack of skilled managers in our country.