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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
noun the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
originBorrowed from Middle French éviction, from Late Latin ēvictiō, from Latin ēvincō.
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