eviction

See also: éviction

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɪk.ʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

Noun

eviction (countable and uncountable, plural evictions)

1. The act of evicting.

   order of eviction

   face eviction

   threat of eviction

   The family faced eviction after missing several payments.

   Protesters resisted the eviction of squatters.

2. The state of being evicted.

Antonyms

• antieviction
• noneviction

Hyponyms

• constructive eviction
• renoviction

Derived terms

• evictionism
• evictionist

Related terms

• evict
• evince

Translations

the act of evicting

• Arabic: طَرْد (ar) m (ṭard)
• Armenian: վտարում (hy) (vtarum)
• Bulgarian: изгонване (bg) n (izgonvane), изселване (bg) n (izselvane)
• Catalan: desallotjament, desnonament (ca) m, evicció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅逐 / 驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú), 赶出 (zh) (gǎnchū)

• Czech: vystěhování n
• Danish: udsættelse (da) c
• Dutch: uitwijzing (nl) f
• Esperanto: eldomigo
• French: expulsion (fr) f, éviction (fr) f
• Georgian: გასახლება (gasaxleba), გამოსახლება (gamosaxleba), განდევნა (gandevna)
• German: Ausweisung (de) f, Exmission f, Vertreibung (de) f, Zwangsräumung (de) f
• Greek: έξωση (el) f (éxosi)
• Hungarian: kilakoltatás (hu)
• Italian: espulsione (it) f, sfratto (it) m
• Japanese: 立ち退き (たちのき, tachinoki), 立ち退かせること (Tachinokaserukoto)
• Latin: dēiectiō f
• Māori: tutenga, peinga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utkastelse m

• Polish: ewikcja (pl) f, eksmisja (pl) f
• Portuguese: despejo (pt) m
• Romanian: evulsiune (ro) f
• Russian: выселе́ние (ru) n (vyselénije), изгна́ние (ru) n (izgnánije), лише́ние со́бственности n (lišénije sóbstvennosti)
• Serbo-Croatian: deložacija (sh), prisilno iseljenje n
• Spanish: desalojo (es), desahucio (es) m
• Swedish: vräkning (sv) c, avhysning (sv) c
• Turkish: tahliye (tr)

Further reading

• eviction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia