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[ verb ] remove from a position or office
Examples "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" Used in print ("National Affairs"...)The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news : he would lead the fight to oust Colmer , whom he is said to regard_as `` an inferior man '' . The liberals , smelling blood , were faced with the necessity of winning three big votes - in the Democratic Committee on Committees , in the full party caucus , and on the floor of the House - before they could oust Colmer . (Robert Wallace, "This Is the Way It Came About"...)Lumumba and Kasavubu blamed it all on the military intervention by the Belgians , and appealed_to the United_Nations to send troops to oust them . (The Christian Science Monitor...)The State_Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954 , and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier_Souvanna_Phouma . Related terms |
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[ verb ] remove and replace
Examples "The word processor has ousted the typewriter" Related terms |
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