escrow

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There is currently 1 Belmont Heights Homes in escrow, accepting Back-Up offers. and 11 Belmont Heights Homes are Pending in escrow:

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  1. noun Money, property, a deed, or a bond put into the custody of a third party for delivery to a grantee only after the fulfillment of the conditions specified.
  2. transitive verb To place in escrow.
  3. idiom in escrow In trust as an escrow.

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  • There is currently 1 Belmont Heights Homes in escrow, accepting Back-Up offers. and 11 Belmont Heights Homes are Pending in escrow: —  Long Beach Real Estate-Long Beach Condos
  • Domain name escrow service which takes control of domain name to avoid fraud. —  Domain Name Wire
  • A boutique venture capital firm decides to jump on board but insists that the founder's shares be placed in escrow, and that 75\% of the founder's stock be vested in three years under the pretext of keeping the entrepreneur motivated. —  AlwaysOn Feed
  • According to the report, Microsoft on March 11 completed the latest version of Windows 7, build 7061, and plans to start circulating a Windows 7 RC "escrow" -- a near-final build in which testers look for so-called "showstopper" bugs -- in the last week of April. —  ChannelWeb Complete Feed
  • This escrow was also a factor in the valuation of the other two loans noted in this paragraph. —  News
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  1. Anglo-Norman escrowe, variant of Old French escroe, scroll; see scroll.

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  1. from Middle English *escrowe, by apheresis scrowe, a scroll, from Anglo-French escrowe, Old French escroue, escroe (later Middle Latin escroa, scroa, scrua), a roll of writings, a bond, French écrou, an entry in the jail-book. See further under scrow, scroll.
 

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