Antonyms for oust
aʊstoust

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1. oustverb

   Antonyms:
   harbor, accept, shelter

   Synonyms:
   reject, eject, dismiss, banish, exclude

2. oustverb

   To expel; to remove.

   The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting.

   Synonyms:
   eject, dismiss, exclude, banish, reject

   Antonyms:
   accept, shelter, harbor

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1. oust

   Banish, primarily to put under ban, to compel by authority to leave a place or country, perhaps with restriction to some other place or country. From a country, a person may be banished, exiled, or expatriated; banished from any country where he may happen to be, but expatriated or exiled only from his own. One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others. Banish is a word of wide import; one may banish disturbing thoughts; care may banish sleep. To expel is to drive out with violence or rudeness, and so often with disgrace.

   Synonyms:
   ban, banish, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, drive out, eject, evict, exile, expatriate, expel, ostracize

   Preposition:
   Cataline was banished from Rome; John the Apostle was banished to Patmos.

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1. oust

   Antonyms:
   install, reinstate, readmit, restore

   Synonyms:
   eject, dispossess, deprive, evict, eject, dislodge, remove

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1. • Supplant

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1. oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expelverb

   remove from a position or office

   "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"

   Synonyms:
   rout, exhaust, turf out, expel, toss, throw out, cast out, boot out, fling, discharge, cast away, turn out, release, chuck out, toss out, dispose, dismiss, exclude, throw away, advance, cast aside, kick out, rout out, drum out, put away, toss away, discard, eject

2. oustverb

   remove and replace

   "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"

   Synonyms:
   expel, drum out, throw out, boot out, kick out

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1. oustverb

   Synonyms:
   eject, evict, dispossess, dislodge, remove, displace, expel, depose

How to use oust in a sentence?

1. Tara Setmayer:

   In the two decades I've known African American, he's never been afraid to speak truth to power. As a former Republican National Committee chairman, Michael's decision to join the Lincoln Project's efforts to oust Trump and his enablers is a big deal, republican National Committee's truly' country over party' personified. Michael's invaluable experience and brand of tell Republican National Committee like it is politics will fit right in on this pirate ship. Welcome aboard.

2. Cindy McCain:

   It doesn't serve any good if we just oust someone who really is a good representative of the party.

3. Philip Mudd:

   Short term, they may win, the long-term solution for Iraq may not be a unified state if the only message they (Sunnis in Anbar province) get is either join ISIS, which will behead you, or support the government, which brings in rival Shia militias to oust the Sunnis. It's a very difficult political situation.

4. Mongkol Sukcharoenkana:

   The fisheries law is deformed. The regulations based on it are then also deformed. We have to fix the root cause, if the government won't fix the problems for us, we'll just oust them.

5. Ralph Nader:

   Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

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