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eviction

/ɪˈvɪk.ʃən/

eviction noun: the act of evicting.

Noun

eviction (countable and uncountable, plural evictions)

  1. The act of evicting.
    • order of eviction
    • face eviction
  2. The state of being evicted.

eviction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

eviction in Hindi

eviction
बेदख़ली bedaxlī

eviction in Tamil

அப்புறப் படுத்தல், வெளியேற்றம், வெளியேற்றல்

eviction in Urdu

بےگھری, گھر سے بےدخلی, خراج

eviction in Bengali

eviction
উচ্ছেদ ucchêd
eviction; expulsion; uprooting
উচ্ছেদন ucchēdôn
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eviction in Malayalam
ഒഴിപ്പിക്കൽ, കുടിയിറക്കൽ, ബഹിഷ്കരണം
eviction in Punjabi
ਬੇਦਖਲੀ
eviction in Arabic
طَرْد ṭard

Examples of eviction in a sentence

  • The family faced eviction after missing several payments.
  • Protesters resisted the eviction of squatters.

Antonyms of eviction

Forms of eviction

pluralevictions

Origin of eviction

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

Words formed from eviction

Phrases with eviction

Words that rhyme with eviction

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Questions about eviction

What does eviction mean?
Eviction means the act of evicting.
What is eviction in Hindi?
Eviction in Hindi is बेदख़ली (bedaxlī). See Eviction meaning in Hindi.
How do you use eviction in a sentence?
The family faced eviction after missing several payments.
What part of speech is eviction?
Eviction is a noun.
How do you pronounce eviction?
Eviction is pronounced /ɪˈvɪk.ʃən/.
What is the plural of eviction?
The plural of eviction is evictions.

Words near eviction in the dictionary

  1. evictable
  2. evicted
  3. evictee
  4. evictees
  5. evicting
  6. eviction
  7. evictionism
  8. evictionist
  9. evictionists
  10. evictions
  11. evictor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eviction (page history and authors); बेदख़ली (Hindi) (page history and authors); eviction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eviction (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); উচ্ছেদ (Bengali) (page history and authors); eviction (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eviction (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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