de·fen·es·tra·tion

/dēˌfenəˈstrāSHən/

1. formal•humorousthe action of throwing someone out of a window.”death by defenestration has a venerable history”
2. 2.informalthe action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority.”that victory resulted in Churchill’s own defenestration by the war-weary British electorate”

Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years’ War.