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dispossession
[dis-puh-zes] 
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dispossession
[dis-puh-zes]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deprivation |
| Synonyms: | denial, deprival, loss, privation, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, banishment, bounce, brush-off, cold shoulder, congé, deportation, deposal, deposition, discharge, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expatriation, expulsion, freedom, freeing, housecleaning, kiss-off, layoff, liberation, marching orders, notice, old heave-ho, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip, relegation, removal, suspension |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, appointment, employment, hiring, maintainance, retention, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eviction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | throwing out of a residence |
| Synonyms: | boot, bounce*, bum's rush, clearance, dislodgement, dispossession, ejection, expulsion, kicking out, ouster, removal, rush, the gate, walking papers |
| Antonyms: | admittance, boarding, including, leasing, receiving, renting, welcome, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishing |
| Synonyms: | banishment, boot, bounce, debarment, deportment, discharge, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, dispossession, driving out, ejection, eviction, exclusion, exile, expatriation, extrusion, forcing out, ostracism, ouster, ousting, proscription, purge, relegation, removal, rush, suspension |
| Antonyms: | import, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | deprival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deprivation |
| Synonyms: | denial, disadvantage, dispossession, hardship, lack, privation, want |
| Main Entry: | divestiture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deprivation |
| Synonyms: | disinvestment, dispossession, divestment, divesture, privation |
| Main Entry: | ejectment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ejection |
| Synonyms: | dismissal, dispossession, eviction, expulsion, ouster |
| Main Entry: | misplacement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loss |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
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