All 3 Uses
eviction
in
The Joy Luck Club
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- So now I know Auntie Ying's daughter, Lena, told her about my being evicted from my apartment on lower Russian Hill.†
Chpt 2evicted = forced someone to leave
- Two years ago, she had tried to evict them on the pretext that relatives from China were coming to live there.†
Chpt 15 *evict = force someone to leave
- One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(eviction) the process of forcing someone to leave a place -- typically from a home due to non-payment
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)