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

   Synonymsconstructive eviction

   Broadercompulsion

   law

2. 2.

   the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law

   Synonymsdispossessionlegal ouster

   Broaderdue process

   Narrowerousteractual evictionretaliatory eviction

   law

Other forms of eviction

plural

evictions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eviction

What does eviction mean?

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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eviction?

eviction has 3 syllables: e-vic-tion. The stress falls on "vic". In IPA it is /ɪˈvɪkʃən/.

What is another word for eviction?

Close synonyms include constructive eviction, dispossession, legal ouster. 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 eviction a common word?

eviction is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eviction?

1 word rhymes with eviction. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.