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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Ouster \Oust"er\, n. [Prob. fr. the OF. infin. oster, used
     substantively. See Oust.]
     A putting out of possession; dispossession; disseizin; -- of
     a person.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement,
           intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement.
                                                    --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Expulsion; ejection; as, his misbehavior caused his ouster
        from the party; -- of a person, from a place or group.
        [PJC]
  
     Ouster le main. [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.]
        (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian,
        or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that
        purpose. --Blackstone.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Dispossession \Dis`pos*ses"sion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]possession.]
     1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being
        dispossessed. --Bp. Hall.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or
        otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no
        matter in what title; -- called also ouster.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Ouster \Oust"er\, n. [Prob. fr. the OF. infin. oster, used
     substantively. See Oust.]
     A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection;
     disseizin.
  
           Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement,
           intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement.
                                                    --Blackstone.
  
     Ouster le main. [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.]
        (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian,
        or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that
        purpose. --Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Dispossession \Dis`pos*ses"sion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]possession.]
     1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being
        dispossessed. --Bp. Hall.
  
     2. (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or
        otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no
        matter in what title; -- called also ouster.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  ouster
       n 1: a person who ousts or supplants someone else [syn: ejector]
       2: a wrongful dispossession
       3: the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out [syn: ousting]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  ouster
     Αγγλικά n.
     η αποπομπή, η εκδίωξη

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  ouster
     Old French vb.
     (lb fro chiefly Anglo-Norman) (alternative form of fro oster)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  ouster
     n.
     1 (lb en historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession;
  ejection.
     2 (lb en property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another
  cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
     3 (lb en now chiefly US) Specifically, the forceful removal of a
  politician or regime from power; coup.
     vb.
     To oust.
     n.
     (lb en UK) Someone who ousts.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  ouster
     Old French vb.
     (lb fro chiefly Anglo-Norman) (alternative form of fro oster)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  ouster
     Old French vb.
     (lb fro chiefly Anglo-Norman) (alternative form of fro oster)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Ouster /ˈaʊstə/
  الإبعاد

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ouster /ˈaʊstə/ 
  vyhoštěnec

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ouster /ˈaʊstə/ 
  vyhoštění

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  ouster /ˈaʊstə/
   [Am.] Amtsenthebung  [pol.]
     Synonyms: removal from office, dismissal from office, discharge from office, recall
  
   see: suspension from office
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  ouster /ˈaʊstə/
  Ausbooten , Abservieren , Hinauswurf 
           Note: von jdm. aus einer gemeinsamen Wohnung/Unternehmung
           Note: of sb.

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  ouster /ˈaʊstə/ 
  1. बेदख़ली

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈaʊstɝ/

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :   [ bouvier ]

  OUSTER, torts. An ouster is the actual turning out, or keeping excluded, the 
  party entitled to possession of any real property corporeal. 
       2. An ouster can properly be only from real property corporeal, and 
  cannot be committed of anything movable; 1 Car. & P. 123; S. C. 11 Eng. Com. 
  Law R. 339; 2 Bouv. 1 Inst. n. 2348; 1 Chit. Pr. 148, note r; nor is a mere 
  temporary trespass considered as an ouster. Any continuing act of exclusion 
  from the enjoyment, constitutes an ouster, even by one tenant in common of 
  his co-tenant. Co. Litt. 199 b, 200 a. Vide 3 Bl; Com. 167; Arch. Civ. Pl. 
  6, 14; 1 Chit. Pr. 374, where the remedies for an ouster are pointed out. 
  Vide Judgment of Respondent Ouster. 
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "ouster":
     booting out, bouncer, chucker, chucker-out, defenestration,
     detrusion, discharge, dislodgment, dispossession, ejection,
     ejectment, ejector, eviction, evictor, expeller, expulsion,
     extrusion, jettison, kicking downstairs, obtrusion, ousting,
     rejection, removal, the boot, the bounce, throwing out
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 放逐;侵占[财产等] ;不法夺取

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