Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dispossession by judicial sentence; the recovery of lands or tenements from another's possession by due course of law.
- noun An involuntary loss of possession, or inability to get a promised possession, by reason of the hostile assertion of an irresistible title.
- noun Forcible expulsion; the act of turning out or driving away, as a trespasser or disturber of the peace.
- noun Proof; conclusive evidence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.
- noun obsolete Conclusive evidence; proof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
evicting . - noun The state of being
evicted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
- noun 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 2008, Yee introduced SB 782 to prohibit tenant evictions if the eviction is based on incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
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In 2008, Yee introduced SB 782 to prohibit tenant evictions if the eviction is based on incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
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The issue of forced eviction is greater than generally acknowledged; of the initial sample, 19 of 106 - or 17 percent of camps - had been closed.
Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs
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In 2008, Yee introduced SB 782 to prohibit tenant evictions if the eviction is based on incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
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In 2008, Yee introduced SB 782 to prohibit tenant evictions if the eviction is based on incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
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The issue of forced eviction is greater than generally acknowledged; of the initial sample, 19 of 106 - or 17 percent of camps - had been closed.
Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs
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Once an eviction is on your record, it makes it more difficult to get another apartment.
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It's not just a weekend visit, so I'll have time with them if the gnome eviction is at all reasonable.
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The issue of forced eviction is greater than generally acknowledged; of the initial sample, 19 of 106 - or 17 percent of camps - had been closed.
Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs
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In 2008, Yee introduced SB 782 to prohibit tenant evictions if the eviction is based on incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
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