Usually means: Removing someone from a position.
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  1. ousting: Merriam-Webster
  2. ousting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ousting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ousting, ousting: Wordnik
  5. ousting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ousting: Wiktionary
  7. Ousting, ousting: Dictionary.com
  8. ousting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ousting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. ousting: Rhymezone
  11. Ousting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ousting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. ousting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. ousting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. ousting: FreeDictionary.org

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ousting: Legal dictionary

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  1. ousting: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ousting)

▸ noun:  The act by which somebody is ousted; an ouster.

Similar:
ouster, outer, ejectment, amotion, outcasting, overthrowal, outcompetition, expelling, squeezeout, exclusion, more...

Opposite:
retaining, keeping, maintaining

Types:
overthrow, coup, topple, regime change, more...

Adjectives:
gradual, final, subsequent, eventual, complete, violent, successful, sudden, own, immediate, real

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Similar:
ouster, outer, ejectment, amotion, outcasting, overthrowal, outcompetition, expelling, squeezeout, exclusion, more...

Opposite:
retaining, keeping, maintaining

Types:
overthrow, coup, topple, regime change, more...

Adjectives:
gradual, final, subsequent, eventual, complete, violent, successful, sudden, own, immediate, real



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