Ouster definitions

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One that ejects, forces out, or supplants another.
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The wrongful exclusion or dispossession of one from real property to which one is entitled by law.
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The act of ejecting, forcing out, or supplanting.
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The state of being ejected, forced out, or supplanted.
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A person or thing that ousts.
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An ousting or being ousted, esp. from real property; legal eviction or unlawful dispossession.
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Any expulsion or dismissal.
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The wrongful exclusion of a person from property or dispossession of same.
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The removing from office of a public or corporate official.
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(historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
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(property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
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(now chiefly US) Specifically, the forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; coup.
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Someone who ousts.
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Origin of ouster

From Old French ouster, oustre, a nominalization of Anglo-Norman oustre (“to oust").

Sentence Examples

  • Victor's subsequent return led to Adam's ouster.

  • After Baxter had been a year in office Brooks received a judgment of ouster against him from a state circuit judge, and got possession of the public buildings (April 1874).

  • ouster clause " is not about " streamlining " avenues of " appeal " .

  • Even after their ouster, Christmas did not regain its full luster.

  • In1906-1907a fresh crusade to enforce the law was begun by the attorney-general, who brought ouster suits against the mayors of Wichita, Junction City, Pittsburg and Leavenworth for not enforcing the law and for replacing it with the " fine " system, which was merely an irregular licence.

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