Meaning of oust in English

oust

verb [ T ]

/aʊst/ uk

/aʊst/

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to force someone to leave a position of power, job, place, or competition:

The president was ousted (from power) in a military coup in January 1987.

Police are trying to oust drug dealers from the city .

Last year's NCAA winners have been ousted from the tournament.

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They offered voters a massive inducement to oust the president by announcing that sanctions would be lifted if there was 'democratic change'.
He was ousted from the club for violating its rules.
Traditional farming patterns have been ousted by modern methods.
It proved impossible to oust him from power.
The rebels are intent on ousting the dictator.

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(Definition of oust from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

oust | Intermediate English

oust

verb [ T ]

/ɑʊst/

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to force someone out of a job or position:

The school board voted to oust the school superintendent.

ouster

noun [ U ] us

/ˈɑʊ·stər/

She publicly called for his ouster as chairman.

(Definition of oust from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

oust | Business English

oust

verb [ T ]

/aʊst/ us

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to force someone to leave a job, position of power, place, etc.:

Shareholders successfully agitated to oust the company's chief executive last summer.

It is not the first time he has been ousted from a company.

(Definition of oust from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of oust

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The ensuing plot featured a cartoonishly evil technology company that conspired to oust salt-of-the-earth tenants from a multicultural group house to satisfy naked greed.

From The Atlantic

I'm ousted to the head of the pass, relegated to wiping down plates and checking orders against tickets before they go out.

From Slate Magazine

Military forces are also less likely to intervene either to oust a bad leader or crack down on popular uprisings.

From CNBC

He was ousted from the minister's position in a cabinet reshuffle in 2010 just as the corruption scandal surfaced.

From Reuters

Voters are less likely to oust the incumbent without knowing who his potential replacements are.

From Heritage.org

He has long contended he is the victim of a political vendetta orchestrated by what he says are left-leaning prosecutors intent on ousting him.

From Huffington Post

Society rejects them, but they also reject society that has ousted them over the decades.

From NPR

She has survived during the terms of four governors, two of whom tried to oust her.

From Baltimore Sun

But he was ousted from the company in 2013.

From The Verge

Emerging technologies will exacerbate this problem as computers learn to perform many activities, from driving taxis to diagnosing patients, ousting human workers.

From Huffington Post

Interestingly, factions of his own family ousted him.

From Huffington Post

By early 2009, as general protests increased in size and sometimes turned violent, the country's government was ousted.

From Foreign Policy

If two flies exploit exactly the same resource, you'd expect the more efficient competitor to eventually oust its rival.

From National Geographic

He then reportedly drove 50 yards, then tried again to oust them.

From CNET

An election rife with fraud had ousted him from the race.

From CNN

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in Chinese (Traditional)

將…趕下臺，罷免，廢黜, 趕走, 淘汰…

Meaning of oust in English

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ouster

oust | Business English

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