rustication
Rustication has a few lives: in British universities, it's the formal punishment of temporarily suspending a student and sending them home — the academic equivalent of being benched.
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Rustication has a few lives: in British universities, it's the formal punishment of temporarily suspending a student and sending them home — the academic equivalent of being benched. In architecture, it refers to stonework with deliberately rough or recessed joints giving a rugged appearance. More broadly, it means living in or retreating to the countryside, swapping city stress for rural calm. The academic usage is where it most often appears in modern informal conversation.
After that cheating scandal, he faced rustication for a full term and had to explain everything to his parents.
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The act or process of rusticating.
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(uncountable) Residence in the country.
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The result of having been rusticated.
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