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Ousting

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Deposition 76% connected

The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dethronement 76% connected

Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.

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Ejection 76% connected

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

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Exclusion 76% connected

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…

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Expulsion 76% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Riddance 76% connected

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

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Ouster 92% connected

A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Barring noun · 86% connection

the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

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Blackball noun · 86% connection

the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

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Deportation noun · 86% connection

the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

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Ostracism noun · 86% connection

the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

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Cellular inclusion noun · 78% connection

any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell"

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Class noun · 78% connection

people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

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Deprivation noun · 78% connection

a state of extreme poverty

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Discrimination noun · 78% connection

unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

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Evidence noun · 78% connection

an indication that makes something evident; "his trembling was evidence of his fear"

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Exclusive right noun · 78% connection

a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…

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Favoritism noun · 78% connection

unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

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Favouritism noun · 78% connection

unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

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Impoverishment noun · 78% connection

the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

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Inclusion noun · 78% connection

any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell"

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Inclusion body noun · 78% connection

any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell"

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Inequality noun · 78% connection

lack of equality; "the growing inequality between rich and poor"

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Limited review noun · 78% connection

(accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of fin…

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Lit noun · 78% connection

the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit"

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Disseize verb · 78% connection

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to d…

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Evict verb · 78% connection

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

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Ousted imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Oust

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Usurp verb · 78% connection

To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp…

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Oust noun · 72% connection

See Oast.

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