EVICTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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 involved