renoviction
/ˌɹɛn.əˈvɪk.ʃən/
renoviction noun: the eviction of all of a building's tenants on the grounds that a large-scale renovation is planned.
Noun
renoviction (countable and uncountable, plural renovictions)
- The eviction of all of a building's tenants on the grounds that a large-scale renovation is planned.
- The city's blogs and online communities are filled with rants against so-called "renovictions," as landlords boot out long-time tenants to install hardwood floors and marble countertops in order to hike up rent or pay for things like security and safety upgrades.2011 September 14, Erica Alini, “Vancouver—the most livable city?”, in Maclean's
Forms of renoviction
| plural | renovictions |
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Origin of renoviction
Blend of renovation + eviction.
Words that rhyme with renoviction
- friction
- astriction
- jurisdiction
- addiction
- benediction
- contradiction
- conviction
- depiction
- valediction
- constriction
- dereliction
- fan fiction
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- fiction
- indiction
- restriction
- affliction
- diction
- emiction
- eviction
- faan fiction
- infriction
- malediction
- prediction
- science fiction
- striction
- abstriction
- affixion
- condiction
- confliction
- effiction
- infixion
- miction
- pilimiction
- postdiction
- preconstriction
- prefixion
- reliction
- retrodiction
- scientifiction
- stiction
- suffixion
- transfixion
Questions about renoviction
- What does renoviction mean?
- Renoviction means the eviction of all of a building's tenants on the grounds that a large-scale renovation is planned.
- What part of speech is renoviction?
- Renoviction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce renoviction?
- Renoviction is pronounced /ˌɹɛn.əˈvɪk.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of renoviction?
- The plural of renoviction is renovictions.
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