to foreclose
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8.1
- verb
- /fɔrˈkloʊz/
- Specialized
:
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- And so the bank that did the loan for him foreclosed on this person.
- foreclosed property
- banks foreclose
- foreclose on a loan
The banks going to foreclose on my little ranch.
- The banks going to foreclose on my little ranch.
- The company's banks were foreclosing on me.
- They're staged steps on who they have to foreclose on, in what order, OK.
- If attorneys can argue that people getting foreclosed on or evicted won't spread COVID, game over.
- But at that time I had financial like my I almost had to foreclose on my home.
- And so the second is going to lose everything if they allow that first to foreclose.
- There's a wave of evictions on top of that because banks are foreclosing on landlords, landlords can't get the rent out the people and result misery.
Examples
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You've got to make a payment to the bank, otherwise they're gonna foreclose.
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Their home is about to be foreclosed on and I need to make a payment.
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Tell me, did you foreclose on many families this week?
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No bank's gonna foreclose until Monday.
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The banks going to foreclose on my little ranch.
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Their intention, according to records and emails, was to call the note and foreclose on the building.
Academic text (2011) -
We're foreclosing on your house.
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Now the bank is threatening to foreclose on his apartment building," Beau said.
Fiction book (1995) -
Homeowners are being foreclosed on all the time because they can't pay their mortgage.
Blog text (9) -
Unfortunately, he got so deeply in debt that the bank foreclosed on the store.
Synonyms
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5.8
To take back a house or car when someone stops paying
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The legal sense of foreclose uses the same image: fore- 'before' plus close 'shut' gives the idea of 'shutting out' someone's right. That's why when a bank forecloses, it shuts out the borrower's right to the home and takes the property.