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OUST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a position or office

Example:

The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds

Synonyms:

boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "oust" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "oust"):

excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)

depose; force out (force to leave (an office))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

ouster (a person who ousts or supplants someone else)

ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove and replace

Example:

The word processor has ousted the typewriter

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "oust" is one way to...):

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant (take the place or move into the position of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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