Action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved.

synonym: constructive eviction.

Roget 297: ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion, exportation, eviction, extrusion, trajection^†; discharge.    emesis, vomiting, vomition^†.    egestion^†, evacuation; ructation^†, eructation; bloodletting, venesection [Med.], phlebotomy, paracentesis^†; expuition, exspuition; tapping, drainage; clearance, clearage^†.    deportation; banishment etc. (punishment ) 972; rouge's march; relegation, extradition; dislodgment.    bouncer [U.S.], chucker-out [Slang].    [material vomited] vomit, vomitus [Med.], puke, barf [Coll.].    ... show more

Polish: eksmisja

The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law.

synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster.

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; reception etc. (taking in) 296; deglutition etc. (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation^†; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension^†; abreption^†, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal etc. 38; abstraction, ademption^†; adrolepsy^†.    dispossession; deprivation, deprivement^†; bereavement; divestment; disherison^†; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction etc. 297.    rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft etc. 791.    resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery etc. 775.    clutch, swoop, wrench; grip etc. (retention) 781; haul, take, catch; scramble.    taker, captor.    [Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate] subduction [Geol.].    ... show more

Polish: ewikcja