Word Study
foreclosure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun foreclosure has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
foreclosure, n.
The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
foreclosure
arrestation, debarment, determent, deterrence, discouragement, disendowment, disherison, disinheritance, disownment, dispossession, disseisin, estoppel, eviction, expropriation, forbiddance, forestalling, halt, obviation, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, reclaiming, repossessing, repossession, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping
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