ethnic cleansing

1. 1.

   the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area

   Broadergroup action

Questions about ethnic cleansing

What does ethnic cleansing mean?

ethnic cleansing means "the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area".

Is ethnic cleansing a common word?

ethnic cleansing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.