ousting
Removal from power
Ousting is the act of forcing someone out of a position or place.
The word typically applies to removing people from positions of power or authority: The board voted for the CEO's ousting, The ousting of the dictator led to years of instability.
An ousting can be formal or informal, peaceful or violent.
Forced permanent removal
- evictionForced departure from rental
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
- dismissalRemoval from position
- displacementRemoval from usual location
dislodgment · banishment · exile · deportation · removal · purge · firing · sacking
Abrupt seizure of power
- dethronementRemoval from sovereign power
- unseatingRemoving from a position
- topplingCausing to collapse
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
usurpation · takeover · putsch · dethroning · abdication · succession
Violent governmental overthrow
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- mutinyRevolt against authority
insurgency · rebellion · sedition · subversion · resistance · unrest · protest · dissent
expulsion
Forced permanent removal
- evictionForced departure from rental
- ejectionForced removal from somewhere
- dismissalRemoval from position
displacement · dislodgment · banishment · exile · deportation · removal · purge · firing · sacking · termination
coup
Abrupt seizure of power
- dethronementRemoval from sovereign power
- unseatingRemoving from a position
- topplingCausing to collapse
deposition · usurpation · takeover · putsch · dethroning · abdication · succession
revolution
Violent governmental overthrow
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
mutiny · insurgency · rebellion · sedition · subversion · resistance · unrest · protest · dissent · opposition
- takeovertakeover, take over, seize power, seizure, coup d'etat
- driving awayrepelling, banishing, forcing out, warding off, fending off
- 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
oustingappointing
Selecting for a position
installing · instating · inaugurating · electing · crowning
oustingresigning
Giving up a post
stepping down · abdicating · retiring · withdrawing · bowing out