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Ouster

Ouster Meaning & Definition
Ouster Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ouster?

[n] the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
[n] a wrongful dispossession
[n] a person who ousts or supplants someone else

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ouster: ejector | ousting

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | deposition | dethronement | dispossession | ejection | eviction | exclusion | expulsion | human | individual | legal ouster | mortal | person | riddance | somebody | someone | soul

Ouster In Webster's Dictionary

\Oust"er\, n. [Prob. fr. the OF. infin. oster, used substantively. See {Oust}.] A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. --Blackstone. {Ouster le main}. [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.] (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose. --Blackstone.

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