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  • noun Plural form of oustee.

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Examples

  • Token cash compensation to the reservoir "oustees" is no longer considered an acceptable solution.

    Chapter 21 1995

  • Furthermore "oustees" may resist being relocated to an area distant from their original home.

    Chapter 21 1995

  • Semantics aside, it is generally agreed that any person removed from his/her homes by civil war, governance collapse, border conflicts, famine and other natural disasters, restructuring of the economy, as development "oustees," and by persecution are considered IDP’s.

    HUD Huffing and Puffing to Blow Down NOLA Public Housing by Christmas 2007

  • Brian Friedman, Louis Walsh . . . a rollcall of previous oustees might put this into perspective.

    Cheryl Cole's loss could be the US X Factor's gain 2011

  • It used to be a marshy land before and the people who occupied Cheetah Camp were oustees from the BARC area which was cleared to accommodate BARC personnel.

    Mumbai Names 4 Abodh 2009

  • It used to be a marshy land before and the people who occupied Cheetah Camp were oustees from the BARC area which was cleared to accommodate BARC personnel.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Abodh 2009

  • 'The CPI, which is offering land to industries in West Bengal despite violent protests by land oustees, has stoked tension by provoking locals for violence in Bastar's Lohandiguda area where Tata Steel plans to set up an integrated steel plant,' Singh told IANS.

    CPI fomenting trouble against steel plants: Raman Singh Abhay N 2007

  • Arijit Banerjee tells me that the then Chief Secretary of the West Bengal government even then run by the Left Front was sensitive to the needs of the oustees, which helped him overcome the bureaucratic hurdles in rehabilitating them.

    Into Thin Air - By Sumanta Banerjee Abhay N 2007

  • However, resettlement of reservoir oustees remains a problems.

    Chapter 21 1995

  • Expressing concern over delay in the payment of compensation to the land oustees, he demanded that the government provide compensation along with the interest to the land oustees.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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