Noun eviction has 2 senses
  1. eviction, constructive eviction - action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
    --1 is a kind of compulsion, coercion
    Derived form: verb evict1
  2. eviction, dispossession, legal ouster - the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
    --2 is a kind of due process, due process of law
    --2 has particulars: ouster; actual eviction; retaliatory eviction
    Derived form: verb evict2
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