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 Extraction (military) on Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

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extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

  1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  2. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  3. (dated) A person's origin or ancestry.
    • 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:
      Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...
  4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  5. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

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French

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extraction f (plural extractions)

  1. extraction

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