Ouster definition

oustər

Any expulsion or dismissal.

noun

One that ejects, forces out, or supplants another.

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(law) 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.

noun

The state of being ejected, forced out, or supplanted.

noun

A person or thing that ousts.

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(law) An ousting or being ousted, esp. from real property; legal eviction or unlawful dispossession.

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The wrongful exclusion of a person from property or dispossession of same.

noun

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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Other Word Forms

Singular:

ouster

Plural:

ousters

Anglo-Norman to oust, ouster oust

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French ouster, oustre, a nominalization of Anglo-Norman oustre (“to oust").

From Wiktionary
oust + -er

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