Associations to the word «Eviction»

Wiktionary

EVICTION, noun. The act of evicting.
EVICTION, noun. The state of being evicted.

Dictionary definition

EVICTION, 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.
EVICTION, noun. The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats