| Noun | 1. | eviction - 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 coercion, compulsion - using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have to use coercion" law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| 2. | eviction - the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law due process, due process of law - (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards ouster - a wrongful dispossession actual eviction - the physical ouster of a tenant from the leased premises; the tenant is relieved of any further duty to pay rent retaliatory eviction - an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |