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eviction

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ɪˈvɪk.ʃən//

The act of evicting.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of evicting.

    order of eviction

    face eviction

    threat of eviction

    The family faced eviction after missing several payments.

  2. 2

    The state of being evicted.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French éviction, from Late Latin ēvictiō, from Latin ēvincō.

Forms

plural
evictions
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).