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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
oust /aʊst/

▶verb

1 drive out or expel from a position or place.

2 Law deprive of or exclude from possession of something.
■ take away (a court's jurisdiction) in a matter.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. ouster ‘take away’, from L. obstare ‘oppose, hinder’.

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