elimination

/ɪˌlɪmɪˈneɪʃən/ noun

Definition

› [U] when you eliminate someone or something

a process of elimination › when you remove all possible answers to something until only one remains: We arrived at this result by a process of elimination.

(Definition of elimination noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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