Word.ws English Dictionary

oustee

oustee noun: a person who is ousted, especially one who is removed from his place of residence or land to make room for an infrastructure improvement or public works project.

Noun

oustee (plural oustees)

  1. (India) A person who is ousted, especially one who is removed from his place of residence or land to make room for an infrastructure improvement or public works project.
    • The state government will consider constitution of a fact finding committee to take up issues of Pong Dam oustees so that relief can be provided to them.2005 January 17, “Panel to take up dam oustee issues”, in The Tribune Online Edition, India

Forms of oustee

pluraloustees

Origin of oustee

From oust + -ee.

Questions about oustee

What does oustee mean?
Oustee means a person who is ousted, especially one who is removed from his place of residence or land to make room for an infrastructure improvement or public works project.
What part of speech is oustee?
Oustee is a noun.
What is the plural of oustee?
The plural of oustee is oustees.

Words near oustee in the dictionary

  1. Ousset
  2. oust
  3. Oustalet
  4. Oustau
  5. ousted
  6. oustee
  7. oustees
  8. ouster
  9. ouster le main
  10. oustered
  11. Ousterhout's dichotomy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oustee (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oustee.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oustee. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.