Noun: ouster aws-tu(r)
- The act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
"The ouster of the corrupt official was celebrated by many citizens";
- ousting
- (law) a wrongful dispossession
"The tenant claimed ouster when the landlord changed the locks without notice"
- A person who ousts or supplants someone else
"The ouster took control of the company after a hostile takeover";
- ejector
Derived forms: ousters
Type of: actor, dispossession, doer, ejection, eviction, exclusion, expulsion, legal ouster, riddance, worker
Encyclopedia: Ouster