'banish' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to mean to drive out or force someone to leave a place, or to make something no longer exist or be allowed. Example sentence: The King banished all criminals from the kingdom.
And it would follow that bringing in new entrants to the market and giving them autonomy over staff terms and conditions will banish this inertia and innovation will flow.
The St Johnstone manager, Tommy Wright, wants his side to banish the semi-final ghosts of Tynecastle after reaching the last four of the Scottish Cup with a 3-1 victoveroveRaithth Rovers at Stark's Park.
Self-discipline lends itself well to academic focus, helping to banish procrastination.
Valérie Berry, valerieberry.com A big bowl of seriously bitter molten chocolate with crisp, salty olive-oil toasts for dippers … an extravagance of bold flavours that will definitively banish any naff chocolate fondue experience you may have had.
I collapsed over the line (again!) to banish the spectre of my Spine failure and earn a weighty perspex trophy, which was nice.
At the same time the private press was banned.The central bank of Zimbabwe said the country's economy was in a downward spiral and would shrink by about 8% this year.Argentina, which is struggling to banish fears of a debt default, unveiled a draft budget for next year which involves $6.5 billion in spending cuts.See article: Zeroing in.
In April the Bank of Japan embarked on a "shock and awe" mission to banish deflation with a radical monetary easing.
Wherever that approach was tried in Birmingham, or Glasgow, or around the elevated Westway in north-west London it caused exactly the sort of ugliness and alienation he had hoped to banish.
First, they banish expertise from the capitol on a regular basis.
And like the greats, Mahfouz et al, they need coffee to banish lethargy and incite rage.
That makes one stereotype about Italy, the pervasiveness of graft, hard to banish.
