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EVICTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eviction mean? 

EVICTION (noun)
  The noun EVICTION has 2 senses:

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 involvedplay

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

  Familiarity information: EVICTION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


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 ("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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dispossession; eviction; legal ouster

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)


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