pushed out
Ejected from within
Pushed out describes being forced to leave a position, organization, or place—not through direct firing or eviction, but through pressure, marginalization, or made circumstances: She was pushed out of the company after the merger, Long-time residents feel pushed out by rising rents.
The phrase implies the departure wasn't entirely voluntary, even if it appeared so officially.
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
- ejectedForcibly removed
- oustedRemoved from position
- shown the doorForced out, terminated
- evictedRemoved from property legally
given the boot · displaced · shoved · squeezed · extruded · banished · excluded · marginalized · rejected · thrust · removed · exiled · birthed · delivered · protruding · bulging · labor · contractions
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- oustedfired, axed, sacked, canned, terminated
- extinctionmass extinction, dodo, extinct, extinction event, extinction rate