destats

Verb

destat (third-person singular simple present destats, present participle destatting, simple past and past participle destatted)

1. (informal, rare) To encourage or harass statutory tenants into leaving (a building) so that it can be rented under less favourable terms.
   • As the old tenants left, more tenants of the same kind were installed, until the whole house was free from statutory control — or 'destatted'.1963, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 294, page 287