constructive eviction

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymseviction

   Broadercompulsion

   law

Questions about constructive eviction

What does constructive eviction mean?

constructive eviction means "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".

What is another word for constructive eviction?

Close synonyms include eviction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is constructive eviction a common word?

constructive eviction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.