foreclosure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments.
The absence of a symbolic father for a fatherless child, as a cause for psychosis.

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foreclosure foreclosures

From foreclose by analogy with closure, equivalent to fore- + closure.

foreclose distraint

antiforeclosure market foreclosure nonforeclosure preforeclosure widow foreclosure

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