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ejectment
CIDE DICTIONARY
ejectment, n.
- A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes. [1913 Webster]
- A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
ejectment
Displacement
N displacement, elocation, transposition, ejectment, exile, removal, misplacement, dislocation, fish out of water, displaced, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled, houseless, homeless, out of place, out of a situation, in the wrong place, misplaced, out of its element.
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