be far removed from something

remove | American Dictionary

remove
verb[ T ]
us/rɪˈmuv/
to take something away from an object, group, or place:
Please remove your books from the counter.
Club soda will remove that stain.
He was removed from office (= forced to leave an official position).
Space flight is pretty far removed from (= not part of) most people’s experience.

removal

noun[ U ]us/rɪˈmu·vəl/
He ordered the immediate removal of the troops.

remover

noun[ U ]us/riˈmu·vər/
paint remover

remove | Business English

remove
verb[ T ]
uk /rɪˈmuːv/us
to take something or someone away from somewhere or off something:
remove sth/sb from sthHe asked the company to remove him from their database.
The store removed all canned food from the shelves as soon as they heard about the recall.
remove barriers/obstacles/restrictionsThe government failed to remove legal obstacles to the transfer of ownership of assets.
to take away or stop a charge or a cost:
Surcharges on fruit and vegetables will be removed by the end of the year.
This measure removes a layer of cost which could bring down prices.
The commodity market price plunged late on Friday after Brazil removed export taxes.
HR, WORKPLACE
to force someone to leave an important job or a position of power, usually because they have behaved badly, or in a way that you do not approve of:
They initiated the procedure for him to be removed from office.
The City Controller was removed after a failure to list sources of income including rental properties.
Directors are appointed and removed by shareholders.

Examples of remove

remove
If it does, then this modifier is considered an object and the symbol is removed from the list.
Every second section was removed, so that a person could enter into its centre in order to play them.
The rules that were removed, were simply those with the smallest probability (irrespective of the nonterminals they contained).
The first layer to be removed is an acquired political habit.
Many of the pages are blank; others were removed and subsequently have been lost.
The additive constant may be removed by changing to a moving frame [6].
We can then infer that the removed variable functions as a significant mediator between the predictor and criterion variables.
Each item consisted of one large figure with a portion of the pattern removed.
The sweat bath, the angled wall, and the rear piers were removed or buried.
We hypothesize that a burial or an offering may have been removed from this trough.
The new type of tenancy removed rent control and substituted market rents with very little security of tenure.
The control variables that did not contribute to the explanation of loneliness (p .10) were removed.
When she described being removed from a train by the police and pushed to the floor, one could sense the intensity of the personal insult.
Participants who had previously seen the solution to the design problems based on the analogous product were removed from the data set.
They aimed to fragment the township communities and divorce them from the tacksmen, thus removing the basis of the clan military, social and economic structure.
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