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    EVICTION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of lawplay

    Synonyms:

    dispossession; eviction; legal ouster

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("eviction" is a kind of...):

    due process; due process of law ((law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards)

    Domain category:

    jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eviction"):

    ouster (a wrongful dispossession)

    actual eviction (the physical ouster of a tenant from the leased premises; the tenant is relieved of any further duty to pay rent)

    retaliatory eviction (an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states)

    Derivation:

    evict (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involvedplay

    Synonyms:

    constructive eviction; eviction

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("eviction" is a kind of...):

    coercion; compulsion (using force to cause something to occur)

    Domain category:

    jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

    Derivation:

    evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

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