repossessor
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Someone who takes back things like a car or house when payments stop
- noun
- /ˌriːpəˈzɛsər/
- Specialized
:
recuperador
- The repossessor arrived early in the morning to retrieve the house after the owners missed several mortgage payments.
Examples
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Last month, the repossessor took back two vehicles from families who fell behind on their loans.
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A repossessor.
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Signed R.S. Morgan, Morgan and Sons, Repossessors.
Fiction book (1999) -
Within a few weeks she'd managed to stock the freezer with hamburger and to get our couch and console stereo back from the repossessors.
Fiction book (2000) -
As a repossessor for the bank, he had to take back cars from people who couldn't make their payments.
Surface Forms
repossessor singular
repossessors plural
Morphology
Etymology
Repossessor comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' or 'back' and possess meaning 'to have'. So a repossessor is literally someone who 'takes back' what another person had, like a car or house when payments stop.