Meaning & use
ousts
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Forces someone out of a position, office, or place, especially through official or coercive action.
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The board ousts the CEO after a string of disappointing quarterly results.
A palace coup ousts the general within hours of the announcement.
A note on using this word
Ousts is the third-person singular present form of "oust," a word borrowed from Anglo-French legal language meaning to dispossess.
Words with a similar meaning
expelsremoves
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Words with an opposite meaning
reinstatesinstalls
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