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foreclose
[ fawr-klohz, fohr- ]
verb (used with object)
- Law.
- to deprive (a mortgagor or pledgor) of the right to redeem their property, especially on failure to make payment on a mortgage when due, ownership of property then passing to the mortgagee.
- to take away the right to redeem (a mortgage or pledge).
- to shut out; exclude; bar.
- to hinder or prevent, as from doing something.
- to establish an exclusive claim to.
- to close, settle, or answer beforehand.
verb (used without object)
- to take away the right to redeem a mortgage or pledge.
foreclose
/ fɔːˈkləʊz; fɔːˈkləʊʒə /
verb
- law to deprive (a mortgagor, etc) of the right to redeem (a mortgage or pledge)
- tr to shut out; bar
- tr to prevent or hinder
- tr to answer or settle (an obligation, promise, etc) in advance
- tr to make an exclusive claim to
Derived Forms
- foreclosure, noun
- foreˈclosable, adjective
Other Words From
- fore·closa·ble adjective
- nonfore·closing adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of foreclose1
Word History and Origins
Origin of foreclose1
Example Sentences
And he didn’t foreclose a future bid for governor, keeping the possibility propped open with this rhetorical doorstop: “Never say never.”
She later moved to Glendale and then Pasadena, where in 2019, after being ill for months and missing mortgage payments, she said the bank foreclosed on her home.
With these comments, he was trying to foreclose arguments that a Biden commutation could be justified to rectify miscarriages of justice.
Dualistic dismissals of “Ironic” foreclose its vivacious, nonbinary complexity.
As David Dayen at the American Prospect has reported, her tenure as Florida's top prosecutor was notorious for her ruthless treatment of Floridians whose homes had been unlawfully foreclosed upon.
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