eviction
pronunciation
How to pronounce eviction in British English:
UK [ɪ'vɪkʃn]
How to pronounce eviction in American English:
US [ɪ'vɪkʃn]
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- 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
Word Origin
- eviction (n.)
- mid-15c., from Middle French éviction, from Late Latin evictionem (nominative evictio) "recovery of one's property (by judicial decision)," noun of action from past participle stem of evincere, literally "overcome, conquer" (see evict).
Synonym
Example
- 1. Nine months after her family resettled as refugees , jaber , 41 , said she worries constantly about eviction .
- 2. Yet , when jefferson started investigating those suicide tales , she discovered something odd : while tragedies existed , few were solely linked to eviction .
- 3. At times , foreclosure buyers have to start eviction proceedings and pay legal fees to get the previous tenants / owners out of the home .
- 4. And though the conservatives failed to avoid two recessions and a humiliating eviction from europe 's exchange-rate mechanism in 1992 , they learned from their mistakes .
- 5. State legislators are paying their own office rent to avoid eviction . Schools and public universities are having their budgets cut .