eviction 
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 • Syn: constructive eviction • Derivationally related forms: evict • Topics: law, jurisprudence • Hypernyms: compulsion, coercion 2. the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law • Syn: dispossession, legal ouster • Derivationally related forms: dispossess (for: dispossession), evict • Topics: law, jurisprudence • Hypernyms: due process, due process of law • Hyponyms: ouster, actual eviction, retaliatory eviction
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