Can and Oust

Can

Can verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.

Oust and can are semantically related in unseat topic. In some cases you can use "Oust" instead a verb "Can".

Oust

Oust verb - To drive or force out.
Usage example: she was ousted from her job after it was proven she'd been pilfering company supplies

Can and oust are semantically related in unseat topic. Sometimes you can use "Can" instead a verb "Oust".

Nearby Words: ousting, ouster

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Sister Sister Tamera can't take it and quits, forcing Tia (who was already vice president of the Roses) to oust the president.
  • Rage Against the Heavens In Heaven's Bones, the gypsy Trueblood urges on a mad surgeon's creation of living "angels" from kidnapped women, and plots to use them to storm Heaven and oust the residents, including God, so he can become a deity.
  • Villainous Incest Technically applies to Beth's father, who plans to oust Beth's spirit from her body so her mother's ghost can move in, although he's so out of touch with reality that the incestuous implications may honestly never have crossed his mind.
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