eviction

evict | American Dictionary

evict
verb[ T ]
us/ɪˈvɪkt/
to force someone to leave a place:
Long-time residents are being evicted from the buildings.

eviction

noun[ C/U ]us/ɪˈvɪk·ʃən/
[ U ]He’s been threatened with eviction for not paying his rent.

evict | Business English

evict
verb[ T ]
 LAW, PROPERTYuk /ɪˈvɪkt/us
to force someone to move out of a property:
evict sb for sthLandlords have the right to evict tenants for nonpayment of rent.
evict sb from sthThe city evicted the store from its original location on Sixth Street to redevelop the area.
have sb evictedNeighbours had him evicted for repeatedly disturbing the peace.

Examples of evict

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They will not be compensated, should they be evicted from their apartment building.
It was evident, however, that some landlords had a clear intention to evict their tenants, on occasion by skilful use of the law.
During this period of disruption and dislocation, groups often remembered a specific homeland from which they were evicted as a result of conflict.
Everyone in the world is spreading rumours to get him evicted.
The commissioners recognised that such tenants could not be evicted.
Unless = 0, the probability that a farmer is evicted is indeed a monotonically decreasing function of her period one investment.
The farmer is faced with the choice of whether to evict the squatters or not.
In practice farmers are able to go to the courts and request a warrant for the police to evict the squatters.
Effort by the farmer involves choosing whether and how to evict the squatters.
These small-scale miners challenged a government decree evicting them from the area in 1995 and in any event continued to dig pits as usual.
Some farmers avoid investing, fearing that they might be evicted in the future.
Or she can invest to the point at which it is not worthwhile for the government to evict her, typically eliminating all uncertainty.
The key point of the model specification is that the more that is spent on enforcement, the greater the probability that an individual is evicted.
The clergy evicted in 1662 came from the three major groupings of dissent existing at that time, baptists, independents and presbyterians.
Landlords would have little interest in evicting tenants if rental income was greater than the sale value of the property.
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