Other forms: removals
Removal is taking something away. The removal of the tree, removal from office, a removal van.
In British English, removals means moving house — a removal firm, removal men — which is a use American English does not have, where the word is movers. In immigration law, removal is the technical term for making somebody leave, distinguished from deportation. Note remove; and that removal covers everything from a tumour to a minister.
1nounremovalTaking something away.
“The removal of the old tree opened up the view from the kitchen.”
2nounbusinessThe business of moving house, in British use.
“The removal men carried our piano up three flights of stairs.”
removal is a taking away.
Anglo-Norman
remover
Middle English
removen
English
remove
English, today
removal
Built from
From remove + -al. remove comes from Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, from removoir. From Middle English removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removeo, from re- + moveo (“to move”), equivalent to re- + move. Displaced native āfierran.
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