evict
The agreement allows for the immediate eviction of anyone who breaks the rule banning pets.
The tenants were threatened with eviction.
They received an eviction notice telling them they had to leave in seven days.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Evicting and forcing to leave
boot someone off (something)
boot someone out (of something)
bump
chuck
chuck someone out
clear someone off something
clearance
dislocated
extraditable
extradite
extradition
fling something/someone out
flush someone/something out
ship
ship someone off
show someone the dooridiom
slam dunk
sling someone out
smoke
throw

eviction | Business English

eviction
noun[ C or U ]
 LAW, PROPERTYuk /ɪˈvɪkʃən/us
the action of forcing someone to move out of a property:
If the property is sold for redevelopment, hundreds of residents could face eviction.
an eviction notice/orderSeveral of the building's tenants received eviction notices after failing to renew their leases on time.

Examples of eviction

eviction
Many, fearful of hunger and evictions and distrustful of national leaders, saw the wisest action to be to avoid the strike and union.
In other cases eviction followed failure to keep up mortgage payments.
Sometimes short, telegraphic descriptions next to names tell of families reduced to ' wandering ' with their livestock after eviction.
The work depicts a once well-to-do family's eviction from their ancestral estate, because of the father's gambling debts and, doubtless, general extravagance.
For many villagers, forestry would always be associated with evictions and forced relocation.
The contract ensured high-level insecurity, threat of eviction and loss of the family home.
Older tenants may, however, suffer more due to both their age and their fear of arrears and eviction.
My research shows a wave of mainly amicable but also court-enforced evictions recorded from the end of the 1860s onwards.
To demonstrate that investment can change the probability of eviction rather than eliminate a negative outcome, some enforcement nonlinearity is required.
As a result, they were subject to evictions that often appeared arbitrary.
It is during evictions that most cases of violence occur.
A hand-to-mouth existence involved difficulty in paying his landlady and even a threatened eviction.
There are references in the 1880s to evictions and reprisals by landlords towards colonos.
Any building work carried out by a colono without written permission from the landlord was cause for eviction enforced by the courts.
Those who did not comply were labelled ' squatters ' and threatened with eviction.
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