Usually means: Removed from clerical office formally.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. defrocked: Merriam-Webster
  2. defrocked: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defrocked: Collins English Dictionary
  4. defrocked: Vocabulary.com
  5. Defrocked, defrocked: Wordnik
  6. defrocked: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defrocked: Wiktionary
  8. defrocked: Dictionary.com
  9. Defrocked: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. defrocked: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defrocked: Legal dictionary

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  1. defrocked: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defrock)

verb:  (literally) To divest of a frock.
verb:  (figuratively) To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
verb:  (by extension) To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner.
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