dispossession

dispossession
Synonyms and related words:
bereavement, cost, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disendowment, disherison, disinheritance, dislodgment, disownment, disseisin, divestment, eviction, expense, expropriation, foreclosure, forfeit, forfeiture, injury, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, ouster, ousting, perdition, privation, reclaiming, repossessing, repossession, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, stripping, taking away, total loss

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  • dispossession — I noun abridgment, assumption, bereavement, condemnation, confiscation, dislodgment, disownment, disqualification, distrust, divestment, ejection, eviction, expropriation, expulsion, foreclosure, forfeiture, ouster, privation, removal, taking,… …   Law dictionary

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dispossession — 1570s, noun of action from DISPOSSESS (Cf. dispossess) …   Etymology dictionary

  • dispossession — dispossess dis‧pos‧sess [ˌdɪspəˈzes] verb [transitive] to take property or land away from someone, often illegally: • black South Africans who had been dispossessed of their homes dispossession noun [uncountable] …   Financial and business terms

  • dispossession — n. 1. Deprivation. 2. (Law.) Ouster, disseizin, wrongful dispossession …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • dispossession — dispossess ► VERB 1) deprive of land or property. 2) (in sport) deprive (a player) of the ball. DERIVATIVES dispossession noun …   English terms dictionary

  • dispossession — noun see dispossess …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • dispossession — See dispossess. * * * …   Universalium

  • dispossession — noun The act of dispossessing …   Wiktionary

  • dispossession — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being deprived of what one once had or ought to have: deprival, deprivation, divestiture, loss, privation. See GIVE, RICH …   English dictionary for students

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