Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun retaliatory_eviction

1 sense of retaliatory eviction

Sense 1
retaliatory eviction -- (an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states)
       => eviction, dispossession, legal ouster -- (the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law)