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renoviction 

Eviction of tenants resulting from a planned renovation of their apartment building.

Coined by Heather Pawsey in Vancouver. Truly an urban word.

The elderly couple faced renoviction when their landlord served them notice that they had 60 days to vacate. They feared that gentrification would price them out of the entire neighborhood.
renoviction by Slumdog January 17, 2009
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renoviction 

The act of evicting tenants from their rental houses and apartments by greedy landlords who announce huge renovation plans that require the emptying of units to be renovated. Once out, the tenants are not allowed to renew their leases until they agree to huge rent increases, sometimes double what they paid before.

This is a portmanteau word, a combination of renovation + eviction, invented by Heather Pawsey of Vancouver, Canada.
We got a renoviction notice today from the new building owner... they're going to divide the living room to make a new bedroom and replace the kitchen cabinets. We'll have to move out, but we're welcome to come back at double the rent.
renoviction by drm310 March 31, 2009
Word of the Day on September 21, 2023

remoticon 

1: The only emoji that you use for a long period of time or all the time
2. Re- using the same emoji all the time
Oh my god Bethany. Stop using your remoticon!

Renotify 

a 12 year old or younger child that poses as an adult on the internet. Although young of age, a Renotify can be a flat-out loser that will do anything to fit in with a crowd (even if this crowd shits on him or her daily).

Typically a person thats gets bullied a lot and does nothing about it.
how does that guy get shitted on in every server? poor renotify lad.

Look at that renotify trying to fit in Designer Cord, lmfao ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Renotify by resteppoppa March 21, 2022

Renoviction

Forced eviction of a rent controlled apartment, for the purposes of renovation and upgrade the property.

Often done by private landlords with apt units in their primary home, for the purposes of moving a 'family' member into the unit, and converting rental space back into a quasi single family home again. However, often these units will eventually rent for far more money.

Tennants often have no recourse because the rental unit lease or intent to rent letter is enough to allocate funds from welfare but not legal enough for LTB Landlord tennant Act. Police will not press charges on land lord because the do not understand that the lease itself is ilegal/criminal and the LTB expects police to press charges and not a civil case. LtB won't hear these intent to rent agreements which in some cases are over 5yr tenancies
I saw a renoviction granny in DV.
Renoviction by Modern Women December 20, 2025
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
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Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026