ouster
Ejection from power
Ouster is the act of forcing someone out of a position or place.
It typically applies to removal from office, employment, or property: The board voted for the CEO's ouster.
The word carries a sense of finality—an ouster isn't a resignation or quiet departure but a decisive ejection, often after conflict or misconduct.
Forced departure from rental
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
- dismissalRemoval from position
- displacementRemoval from usual location
dislodgment · ejectment · removal · deposal · unseating · toppling · dethroning · overthrow
Banishment from a group
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- banishmentForced removal from place
- exileBanishment from homeland
- excommunicationFormal barring from sacraments
shunning · blacklisting · marginalization · expulsion · proscription · disfellowship · boycott · snubbing
Deprival of property rights
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- repossessionCreditor seizing collateral
- evictionForced departure from rental
- divestitureDisposal of assets
expropriation · forfeiture · confiscation · seizure · ejectment · disbarment · annulment · revocation
Abrupt seizure of power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- regime changeReplacement of governing power
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
- deposalRemoval from authority
unseating · toppling · dethroning · impeachment · recall · abdication · resignation · succession
eviction
Forced departure from rental
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
- dismissalRemoval from position
displacement · dislodgment · ejectment · removal · deposal · unseating · toppling · dethroning · overthrow · defenestration
ostracism
Banishment from a group
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- banishmentForced removal from place
- exileBanishment from homeland
excommunication · shunning · blacklisting · marginalization · expulsion · proscription · disfellowship · boycott · snubbing · cold-shouldering
dispossession
Deprival of property rights
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- repossessionCreditor seizing collateral
- evictionForced departure from rental
divestiture · expropriation · forfeiture · confiscation · seizure · ejectment · disbarment · annulment · revocation · rescission
coup
Abrupt seizure of power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- regime changeReplacement of governing power
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
deposal · unseating · toppling · dethroning · impeachment · recall · abdication · resignation · succession · transition
- eliminationremoval, exclusion, eradication, obliteration, expulsion
- coupscoup d'etat, overthrow, coup attempt, soft coup, failed coup
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- exclusionsexclude, exclusion, excluding, except, exception
- exileexile, banishment, exiled, banished, exiling
- power shiftsregime change, coup d'etat, overthrow, abdication, inauguration
ousterappointment
Scheduled time for something
installation · instatement · inauguration · investiture · induction
ousteradmittance
Permission to enter
admission · inclusion · acceptance · integration · incorporation