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What is a defenestration?

What is a defenestration? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of throwing something or someone out of a window. [from c. 17th c.]
  2. (Britain) The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
  3. (computing) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
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The defenestration, in fact, only precipitated a conflict that was in any case inevitable.
His defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star for seven games.
This is never fun, even for fans that have spent months clamoring for the defenestration of some coach or GM or other.
Geddie, for his part, fought his defenestration but ultimately accepted defeat.
Several other revelations have begun to seep out in the wake of O'Brien's forced defenestration.
In France an 1860 shooting and an 1886 defenestration inspired episodes in Emile Zola's railway novel La Bete humaine.

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