Today’s word - dispossession
Other forms: dispossessionsDispossession is a state of having something taken away from you, particularly your home or land. If a city demolishes houses to build a new highway, it's a kind of dispossession for the people who lived in them.
Possession, or "the fact of owning or occupying," is at the heart of dispossession. The prefix dis- means "not," and this word describes the state of no longer having something that was previously held or possessed. Historians often describe the dispossession of many Indigenous people across North America when colonial settlers seized the land where their ancestors had lived, and they were forced to migrate.
Definitions of dispossession
1. noun the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
synonyms : eviction, legal ouster
types:ouster
a wrongful dispossession
actual eviction
the physical ouster of a tenant from the leased premises; the tenant is relieved of any further duty to pay rent
retaliatory eviction
an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states
type of: due process, due process of law
(law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
2. noun freeing from evil spirits
synonyms : exorcism
type of: supernaturalism
a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding
Question
But the struggle unfolding at Huaxiang World Famous Garden, a gated, suburban-style community on the exurban fringe of the capital, is not like the majority of redevelopment battles that each year lead to the forced eviction and ________ of countless families. (A) dissuasion
(B) disforestation
(C) dispensation
(D) dispossession
Right Answer :- (D) dispossession
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