"destat" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "destats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "destatting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "destatted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "destatted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "destat (third-person singular simple present destats, present participle destatting, simple past and past participle destatted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 294, page 287:",
          "text": "As the old tenants left, more tenants of the same kind were installed, until the whole house was free from statutory control — or 'destatted'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Elspeth Huxley, Back Street New Worlds: A Look at Immigrants in Britain, page 51:",
          "text": "Few but Mr. Ben Parkin, Member of Parliament for North Paddington, paid much attention to the \"destatting\" racket until Miss Keeler and her friends drew aside the curtain on so many facets of our national life.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encourage or harass statutory tenants into leaving (a building) so that it can be rented under less favourable terms."
      ],
      "id": "en-destat-en-verb-0x-tR9Ag",
      "links": [
        [
          "statutory",
          "statutory"
        ],
        [
          "tenant",
          "tenant"
        ],
        [
          "rent",
          "rent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, informal) To encourage or harass statutory tenants into leaving (a building) so that it can be rented under less favourable terms."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "destat"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "destats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "destatting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "destatted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "destatted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "destat (third-person singular simple present destats, present participle destatting, simple past and past participle destatted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 294, page 287:",
          "text": "As the old tenants left, more tenants of the same kind were installed, until the whole house was free from statutory control — or 'destatted'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Elspeth Huxley, Back Street New Worlds: A Look at Immigrants in Britain, page 51:",
          "text": "Few but Mr. Ben Parkin, Member of Parliament for North Paddington, paid much attention to the \"destatting\" racket until Miss Keeler and her friends drew aside the curtain on so many facets of our national life.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encourage or harass statutory tenants into leaving (a building) so that it can be rented under less favourable terms."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "statutory",
          "statutory"
        ],
        [
          "tenant",
          "tenant"
        ],
        [
          "rent",
          "rent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, informal) To encourage or harass statutory tenants into leaving (a building) so that it can be rented under less favourable terms."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "destat"
}