| 单词 | ouster |
| 释义 | ouster (once / 8437 pages) n Use the noun ouster to talk about the process of forcing someone out of a position. If your city's mayor is pressured to leave office, you can describe it as her ouster. When someone is dismissed or strongly influenced to abandon a position or quit a job, it's an ouster. A politician is often vulnerable to an ouster, when others are vying for her position, but your boss at work could also be subject to an ouster if his managers conspired to eliminate his job and force him out. Ouster once meant "kick out of one's house or property," from the Old French word oster, "take away, evict, or dispel." WORD FAMILYouster: ousters+/oust: ousted, ouster, ousting, ousts/ousting: oustings USAGE EXAMPLESThe hostility of GOP congressmen to Adams eventually led to his ouster. Salon(Dec 18, 2016) It is now up to South Korea’s Constitutional Court to decide whether the charges against President Park Geun-hye, above, merit her ouster. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) Hours later, massive crowds rally in Seoul calling for Park’s ouster in what might be the biggest protest in the country’s history. Seattle Times(Dec 07, 2016) 1n a person who ousts or supplants someone else Syn|Hyper ejector individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 2n the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out Syn|Hypo|Hyper ousting deposition, dethronement the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance the act of forcing out someone or something 3n a wrongful dispossession Hyper dispossession, eviction, legal ouster the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law |
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