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say it: di-BAHR-muhnt
debarment is a noun meaning "the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices)
the act of prevention by legal means
“they achieved his debarment from holding public office”
law
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for debarment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.