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Tinanam0102 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Is excess a verb

Hi teachers,

Quotes: "To be a well respected teacher, efficient, dedicated teacher, and then to be excessed after eighteen years of satisfactory service"

Thanks

TN

  

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, to terminate someone from employment. So "to be excessed" is "to be told that your services are no longer needed". But I think you can figure that out for yourself from the context.

— CalifJim

  • , to terminate someone from employment.
  • So "to be excessed" is "to be told that your services are no longer needed".
  • But I think you can figure that out for yourself from the context.
  • There is a definition of excessing in the first paragraph at the link shown below.
  • It seems that it only applies to teachers.
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tinanam0102

Hi teachers,

Quotes: "To be a well respected teacher, efficient, dedicated teacher, and then to be excessed after eighteen years of satisfactory service"

Thanks

TN

I've never seen "excess" used as a verb, but if you actually found this somewhere, "excess" means to fire or to lay off, i.e., to terminate someone from employ

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