force out

1. 1.

   force to leave (an office)

   Synonymsdepose

   Broaderoust

   Narroweroverthrow
2. 2.

   terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

   “The boss fired his secretary today”

   “The company terminated 25% of its workers”

   Synonymsdisplacefiregive noticecandismissgive the axesend awaysackgive the sackterminate

   Broaderremove

   Narrowerretirepension offclean outfurloughsqueeze outdismiss
3. 3.

   force or drive out

   “The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.”

   Synonymsrout outdrive outrouse

   Broadermove

   Narrowerhuntsmoke out
4. 4.

   press, force, or thrust out of a small space

   “The weeds crowded out the flowers”

   Synonymscrowd out

   Broaderdisplace
5. 5.

   expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process

   “The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months”

   Synonymsevict

   Broadereject
6. 6.

   cause to come out in a squirt

   “the boy squirted water at his little sister”

   Synonymssquirtsqueeze outeject

   Broaderdischarge

   Narrowerspritzextravasate
7. 7.

   force with the thumb

   “gouge out his eyes”

   Synonymsgouge

   Broadermutilate
8. 8.

   emit or cause to move with force of effort

   “force out the air”

   “force out the splinter”

   Broaderemit

1. 1.

   a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

   “the shortstop got the runner at second on a force”

   Synonymsforce-outforce playforce

   Broaderputout

   baseball

Questions about force out

What does force out mean?

force out means "force to leave (an office)". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for force out?

Close synonyms include depose, displace, fire, give notice, can. 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 force out a common word?

force out is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.