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Ouster 英 Aʊstə(R)] 美 Aʊstər N.驱逐;剥夺者;〈律〉剥夺 Judge Makes Order

英语单词 ouster
英美音标 英 ['aʊstə(r)] 美 ['aʊstər]
中文释义 n.驱逐;剥夺者;〈律〉剥夺
英语例句 (1) The judge makes an ouster order.
(2) After many years of progress on civilian rule in the Americas, top military officers have assisted in the ouster of the democratically elected leader of Honduras.
中文例句 (1) 法官发出驱逐令。
(2) 在美洲在文官统治方面经过多年的进步之后,洪都拉斯高级军官帮助驱逐了民主选举产生的领导人。
vocabulary简明 Use the noun ouster to talk about the process of forcing someone out of a position. If your city's mayor is pressured to leave office, you can describe it as her ouster.
vocabulary扩展 When someone is dismissed or strongly influenced to abandon a position or quit a job, it's an ouster. A politician is often vulnerable to an ouster, when others are vying for her position, but your boss at work could also be subject to an ouster if his managers conspired to eliminate his job and force him out. Ouster once meant "kick out of one's house or property," from the Old French word oster, "take away, evict, or dispel."

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