What's the difference between evict and vacate?

Evict


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
  • (v. t.) To evince; to prove.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
  • (3) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
  • (4) Depending on who you talk to, these evictions were either violent or largely peaceful.
  • (5) Just five weeks later - following persistent noise complaints from all the neighbours, following a written complaint from the primary school whose playground backs on to the flat, following a police visit to break up a fight between him and his flatmate - he has been evicted.
  • (6) But it isn’t.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children risk eviction from Calais refugee camp.
  • (7) Occupy activists have lost their case at the court of appeal to halt their eviction from an abandoned London building that previously housed the multinational banking giant, UBS.
  • (8) They raised their issues with the council in 2012 and now the landlord is trying to get them evicted.
  • (9) Four years earlier, Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberals had evicted the Conservatives (referred to most often then as Unionists) by what seemed a decisive margin.
  • (10) Oliver's departure followed the exit of Kenneth Tong last Thursday, which forced Channel 4 to abandon the planned eviction vote on Friday and offer a refund to viewers who had already voted.
  • (11) Peter Kruse, a spokesman for Vestas , suggested the eviction would not take place today.
  • (12) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
  • (13) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
  • (14) Roger Harding, Shelter’s director of communications, policy and campaigns, said: “It beggars belief that a landlord can evict a family simply because they have three children, and the fact that this one has is yet another sign of our broken rental market.
  • (15) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.
  • (16) At least two successive Kenyan governments have threatened the Sengwer communities and forest squatters with evictions.
  • (17) Tennis Australia apologises for Bernard Tomic 'Hall of Shame' typo Read more When police arrived they allegedly told him he was being evicted from the hotel and gave him a trespass warning.
  • (18) But this later proved contentious because the reserve appeared to preclude any resettlement of the atolls by islanders whose families had been evicted in 1965 to make way for a giant US air force base.
  • (19) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
  • (20) The latter involved the pressure group New Era, named after the estate that six weeks ago was the scene of a famous victory when residents forced a US investor to abandon plans to evict families and triple rents.

Vacate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.
  • (v. t.) To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.
  • (v. t.) To defeat; to put an end to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (2) Compelling evidence of the transference in this case occurred in the ninth month of treatment when the therapist told the child that she would be going on vacation.
  • (3) Antipyrine clearance was 18% higher during exposure to gasoline than after 2-4 weeks of vacation (P less than 0.01), while antipyrine clearance was unchanged in the office workers.
  • (4) You don't have a film called Out of Asia and you rarely go to Oceania on holidays (instead you talk of vacations in Australia, New Zealand or another island).
  • (5) The cerebellar molecular layer of chronic alcohol treated rats showed degenerated parallel fiber boutons and vacated Purkinje cell spines after 6 months of alcohol feeding; degenerated Purkinje cell dendrites were concomitantly observed.
  • (6) Gibson has held the role of chairman since 4 May 2006, when he took over from Sir Victor Blank, who vacated the role to become chairman at Lloyds TSB.
  • (7) He had simultaneously taken degrees in history and economics, so could cope with the politics and economics, but had to mug up the philosophy over the vacation.
  • (8) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
  • (9) The infestation happened in Greece during vacation.
  • (10) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
  • (11) The top court late on Wednesday also vacated a stay from the US court of appeals.
  • (12) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
  • (13) Vacated postsynaptic sites are subsequently removed by phagocytosis.
  • (14) In the subsequent vacations the Hg values in the students' urine clearly decreased.
  • (15) Asked whether he was worried about being hassled on his family vacation, Jagger said: "Depends where I go.
  • (16) "We are actively considering what is necessary to deal with that threat and we are not going to be restricted by borders," said Rhodes, briefing reporters at Martha's Vineyard, where the president is on vacation.
  • (17) If they do move, they go into the private sector where a smaller home costs the housing benefit budget more than the social housing just vacated.
  • (18) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
  • (19) Sabiah Khatun, a third-year student at Queen Mary, University of London, was inspired to study law after her Smart Start experience, after which she was selected for a summer vacation scheme and will start her training contract at the firm in September 2017.
  • (20) That is, APS binds to the subsite vacated by PAPS in the compulsory (or predominately) ordered product release sequence (PAPS before MgADP).