retaliatory eviction

1. 1.

   an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states

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Questions about retaliatory eviction

What does retaliatory eviction mean?

retaliatory eviction means "an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states".

Is retaliatory eviction a common word?

retaliatory 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.