rustication
- n the condition naturally attaching to life in the country
- n the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner
- n the action of retiring to and living in the country
- n temporary dismissal of a student from a university
- n banishment into the country
- In the two years since then, Mao's rustication program has turned into one of history's great mass movements, with as many as 20 million young Chinese being forced out of the cities.
- Eventually, Xu was sent to rural Yanqing, northwest of Beijing, as part of Mao Zedong's rustication program.
- At that "Tiger" Clemenceau pounced upon "Napoleon" Caillaux, who, jailed during three years of intermittent trials (1917-20), spent four more in voluntary rustication.