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foreclose

[fawr-klohz, fohr-] / fɔrˈkloʊz, foʊr- /
VERB
exclude
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STRONG


VERB
take away the right to redeem a mortgage
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IRS, Like Everyone Else, Can’t Foreclose FCC License Not even the federal government has the right to foreclose a broadcast license granted by the Federal Communications Commission, U.S.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 4, 2011

"You are in default," the bank wrote in an April 2 Notice of Intent to Foreclose that arrived while the family was in Minnesota.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2010

Foreclose the coming of surprise: Stand where Posterity shall stand; Stand where the Ancients stood before, And, dipping in lone founts thy hand, Drink of the never-varying lore: Wise once, and wise thence evermore.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

Foreclose, fōr-klōz′, v.t. to preclude: to prevent: to stop.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Foreclose with all promptitude was their word, and foreclose they did.

From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington



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