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US
/ɪˈvɪkʃən/
]
[ UK /ɪvˈɪkʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɪvˈɪkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
- the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
How To Use eviction In A Sentence
- The group also retained an attorney and filed two lawsuits challenging the evictions in the two counties.
- MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
- To his rescue, to head off any eviction warrants, comes Mrs Whatsername, from Whatever Company, complete with a patronising understanding smile.
- A notice from Verizon underneath the eviction threats curtly informed her that it had been that way for at least a year.
- The Kavanagh family is steeped in local history, having been involved in the famous Evictions of 1860 and having also had close links with the Tourmakeady Ambush of 1921.
- MPs may balk at an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
- But non-government organizations decried the forcible evictions as inhumane, urging the government to build replacements for their demolished houses.
- So a final of twelve people lasts twelve weeks - ten evictions, a final and then a show in which the result is announced.
- Dozens of protesters occupying a historic library in south London have been served with an eviction notice. Times, Sunday Times
- He refused to comment (as he did to me) and served the centre with notice of eviction. Times, Sunday Times