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dispossess 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
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/ˌdispəˈzes/,
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dispossesses, 3rd person singular present; dispossessing, present participle; dispossessed, past tense; dispossessed, past participle;
  1. Deprive (someone) of something that they own, typically land or property
    • - they were dispossessed of lands and properties at the time of the Reformation
    • - a champion of the poor and the dispossessed
  2. Oust (a person) from a dwelling or position
    • - he used to ride out and dispossess his tenants as the spirit moved him
  1. deprive of the possession of real estate
  2. (dispossessed) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
  3. (dispossession) eviction: the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
  4. (dispossession) exorcism: freeing from evil spirits
  5. Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms. ...
  6. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). ...
  7. (dispossessed) homeless; impoverished
  8. (dispossession) The act of dispossessing
  9. (Dispossessed) had the ball taken away by a defender.
  10. (Dispossession) The wrongful, nonconsensual ouster or removal of a person from his or her property by trick, compulsion, or misuse of the law, whereby the violator obtains actual occupation of the land. Dispossession encompasses intrusion, disseisin, or deforcement.
  11. (Dispossession) the act of seizing and controlling someone's property without their consent or agreement. (See “confiscation.”)
  12. To oust from land by legal process.
  13. To remove a person from occupation of a property by a legal action.
  14. To obtain physical possession of property from another by due process of law.
  15. To take away the use, possession, or ownership of real property from someone.