legal ouster

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsevictiondispossession

   Broaderdue process

   Narrowerousteractual evictionretaliatory eviction

   law

Questions about legal ouster

What does legal ouster mean?

legal ouster means "the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law".

What is another word for legal ouster?

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

legal ouster 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.