eviction
Meanings
Plural: evictions
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
- the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
- The act of evicting.
- The state of being evicted.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French éviction, from Late Latin ēvictiō, from Latin ēvincō.
Synonyms
constructive eviction, dispossession, legal ouster
Scrabble Score: 13
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Words With Friends Score: 16
eviction is a valid Words With Friends word