Usually means: Removing someone from a position.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word deposing:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. deposing: Merriam-Webster
  2. deposing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deposing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Deposing, deposing: Wordnik
  5. deposing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deposing: Wiktionary
  7. deposing: Dictionary.com
  8. Deposing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Deposing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. deposing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. deposing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. deposing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deposing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. deposing: Legal dictionary

(Note: See depose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (depose)

verb:  (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
verb:  (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
verb:  (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
verb:  (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
verb:  (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
verb:  To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
▸ Also see depose


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