impeachment

Etymology


From, and thence either:
 * from, , , , (from , , ) + ; or
 * from, , (modern 🇨🇬), from ,  +.

The English word is analysable as.

Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern 🇨🇬) are derived from,   of , from  (variant of ) +  (from , ultimately from ) +.

In senses 1.2 (“accusation that a person has committed a crime”) and 1.3 (“act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct”), the word has been used in place of, the present active infinitive of.

Noun

 * 1)  The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
 * 2)  A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
 * 3)  An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
 * 4)  The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
 * 5)  The state of being impeached.
 * 6)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
 * 1)  A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
 * 2)  An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
 * 3)  The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
 * 4)  The state of being impeached.
 * 5)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
 * 1)  The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
 * 2)  The state of being impeached.
 * 3)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
 * 1)  The state of being impeached.
 * 2)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
 * 1)  The state of being impeached.
 * 2)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
 * 1)  The state of being impeached.
 * 2)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
 * 1)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
 * 1)  Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

Translations

 * German: Abqualifizierung,, , Infragestellen, Infragestellung
 * Japanese:


 * German: Anklage wegen Landesverrats, Beschuldigung des Landesverrats, Anklage wegen eines Staatsschutzdelikts


 * Arabic: طَعْن, سَحْب ثِقَة
 * Azerbaijani: impiçment
 * Belarusian: імпі́чмент, імпі́чмэнт
 * Bulgarian: импи́йчмънт
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: rigsretssag
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: elpostenigo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ríkisrættarmál
 * Finnish: virkasyyte
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:, თანამდებობიდან გადაყენება
 * German:, ,
 * Hindi: महाभियोग
 * Icelandic: ákæra fyrir embættisglöp, ríkisréttarmál
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , messa in accusa
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: импичмент
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: импичмент
 * Latvian: impīčments
 * Lithuanian: apkalta, impičmentas
 * Marathi: महाभियोग
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: riksrett
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: импи́чмент, о̏позӣв
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: impeachment
 * Spanish: impeachment,, destitución, juicio político,
 * Swedish: riksrättsförfarande,, riksrättsdom
 * Tajik: импичмент
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: việc luận tội, cuộc luận tội, việc đàn hặc, cuộc đàn hặc


 * Polish:

Etymology
, originally to refer to the United States. .

Noun

 * 1)   (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, in the United States and other countries)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   act of impeaching a public official

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  political trial (especially in reference to the political systems of English-speaking countries)