共きょう同どう絶ぜっ交こう

noun

ostracism; shunning; collective boycott

Refers to a traditional practice in Japanese villages or communities where a person or family is collectively cut off from social interaction as a form of punishment or pressure. Often associated with 村八分.

• 昔むかしの村むらでは、共きょう同どう絶ぜっ交こうが制せい裁さいとして行おこなわれた。

  In old villages, ostracism was carried out as a sanction.

• 共きょう同どう絶ぜっ交こうは、地ち域いき社しゃ会かいから完かん全ぜんに排はい除じょすることを意い味みする。

  Ostracism means complete exclusion from the local community.