threat of eviction

collocation in English

meaningsofthreatandeviction

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threat
noun[C]
uk
/θret/
us
/θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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eviction
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪˈvɪk.ʃən/
us
/ɪˈvɪk.ʃən/
the act of forcing someone to leave somewhere, especially ...
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(Definition ofthreatandevictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The contract ensured high-level insecurity,threatofevictionand loss of the family home.
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We had hoped that the courts would exercise their discretion generously in favour of occupiers who are suffering considerable hardship by thethreatofeviction.
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These so-called agreements are enforced under thethreatofeviction.
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Thethreatofevictionis terrible to the working class family.
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For many it will give them a mobility to escape from their present inadequate accommodation to better accommodation withoutthreatofeviction.
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The first that the lodgers know of thethreatofevictionis when it takes effect and the bailiffs appear at the door.
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There is no reason why anyone, simply because of the change to housng benefit, should be underthreatofeviction.
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She has not been evicted yet, but thethreatofevictionis being held over her head.
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I venture to suggest that there is probably some background that has not been disclosed, because athreatofevictionis not made so swiftly.
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One was mentioned last week, in which apparently a tenant received athreatofevictionwithin one week of the introduction of the scheme.
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Without it thethreatofevictioncould hang over tenants more or less permanently.
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Old people are terrified by thethreatofeviction.
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The constant revival of thethreatofevictionat the end of these short periods only makes matters infinitely worse.
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Because he refused to pay £14 a week, he is now under thethreatofevictionand is likely to be turned out on the streets.
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For the first time, landlords are now coming forward without holding thethreatofevictionagainst the tenant and recognising that the tenants have some rights.
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Are they aware of the horrific anxiety caused to people who have thatthreatofevictionhanging over their heads even if it is not implemented?
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It is one which will relieve those many anxieties and enable people to breath once again and not to have thethreatofevictionconstantly hanging over their heads.
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The tenant may be in default through circumstances that are beyond his control and can thereby be spared the agony of a court order or of thethreatofeviction.
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Some of them have never used in negotiation thethreatofeviction, but have been fair to those who have been their loyal tenants over a long period of years.
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If he is faced with thethreatofeviction, that alone is sufficient to make him drop any action that is designed to challenge the landlord.
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