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US
/ɪˈvɪkt/
]
[ UK /ɪvˈɪkt/ ]
[ UK /ɪvˈɪkt/ ]
VERB
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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 -
expel or eject without recourse to legal process
The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m.
How To Use evict In A Sentence
- A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
- She was finally evicted in April for non-payment of rent .
- When the evictors arrived at one home they found only a bedridden woman, Margaret Mackay, who was almost 100 years old.
- Soon the association was strong enough to boycott local landlords who were evicting their tenants and offering the land to others at increased rents.
- The group also retained an attorney and filed two lawsuits challenging the evictions in the two counties.
- Yet in the early decades of the 20th Century, they said, the assumption behind machines had been that "labor is an evil"; the new technological devices did not so much "emancipate" workers, as "evict" them. Agrarianism and the Popular Education Culture
- If he were not afraid of him he would long ago have evicted him from the dosshouse. Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories
- Workers also made it clear that any move to evict the union from its office would be met with a mass picket.
- Photo: Jerusalem mayor told to 'evict' Silwan settlers Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- The bishop was then evicted from his home.