CONSTRUCTIVE EVICTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constructive eviction mean? 

• CONSTRUCTIVE EVICTION (noun)
  The noun CONSTRUCTIVE EVICTION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CONSTRUCTIVE EVICTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTRUCTIVE EVICTION (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

constructive eviction; eviction

Hypernyms ("constructive 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)