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Ouster
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Ouster has 3 senses
- ouster(n = noun.person) ejector - a person who ousts or supplants someone else; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- ouster(n = noun.act) Array - a wrongful dispossession; Array is a kind of dispossession, eviction, legal ouster
- ouster(n = noun.act) ousting - the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out; Array is a kind of ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
Derived form verb oust1
has particulars: deposition, dethronement
CIDE DICTIONARY
Ouster, n. [Prob. fr. the OF. infin. oster, used substantively. See Oust.].
- A putting out of possession; dispossession; disseizin; -- of a person. [1913 Webster]"Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement." [1913 Webster]
- Expulsion; ejection; as, his misbehavior caused his ouster from the party; -- of a person, from a place or group. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Ouster, n.
1 ejection as a result of physical action, judicial process, or political upheaval.
2 esp. US dismissal, expulsion.
1 ejection as a result of physical action, judicial process, or political upheaval.
2 esp. US dismissal, expulsion.
THESAURUS
Ouster
booting out, bouncer, chucker, chucker-out, defenestration, detrusion, discharge, dislodgment, dispossession, ejection, ejectment, ejector, eviction, evictor, expeller, expulsion, extrusion, jettison, kicking downstairs, obtrusion, ousting, rejection, removal, the boot, the bounce, throwing out
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