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Is There a Noun Form of Ousted?

We don't really use it outside of a court of law, to be honest. So if at work, for example, er, i wasn't doing very well, and my boss wasn't very happy, could he sentence me to more work? No, no. We wouldn't use it in that context. It's a very official usage. And so we talk about to sentence someone. That's the verb. Is there kind of a noun form of this? Yes, absolutely. You can sentence someone, or give someone a sentence. Riht, a verb and a noun. The word is spelled o us t e d austed, austed, that last sound is id.

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