Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To regain possession of.
- v. To reclaim possession of for failure to pay installments due.
- v. To give back possession to.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To possess again; regain possession of.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To possess again.
- v. To take possession of, for failure of the possessor to make payments owed for purchase of; -- used of real estate subject to mortgage payments and of other objects purchased on a time-payment plan, which may be taken back (repossessed) by the original vendor if the payments are not made on time.
WordNet 3.0
- v. regain possession of something
- v. claim back
Examples
“There's a catch, though: After just a few months of non-payment, The Union reserves the right to send a blue-collar thug to hunt you down and "repossess" - ie: crudely cut out of your living body-the organ.”
“There's a catch, though: After just a few months of non-payment, The Union reserves the right to send a blue-collar thug to hunt you down and "repossess" - i.e.: crudely cut out of your living body-the organ.”
“Make the kid believe he's rich, then 'repossess' the money- either for the college fund or to post bail, your choice.”
“Hounslow Council said that the Keens 'house in Brentford, West London, appeared to have been empty since last November, and so the Keens have been given notice of the council's intention to issue an' Empty Dwelling Management Order ', allowing it to' repossess 'a property if it remains unoccupied and dilapidated for a period of six months.”
“I was going to 'repossess' it, but there were workman around and I didn't have time to hang around.”
“Once he finds them, he must repossess their artiforgs, which means ... well, if you've ever seen the "Live Organ Transplants" sketch from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, you know what that means: opening up the individual and returning the artiforg to the Union.”
“The foreclosure process has been snarled since late 2010, after allegations that banks had serially submitted bogus mortgage documents when attempting to repossess homes from delinquent borrowers.”
“Banks have been slow to repossess these homes after foreclosure-processing abuses surfaced last year, but the inventory ultimately could rise as banks begin to take back and list more of those properties.”
“It's everyday people trying to repossess a piece of their society, she said.”
“If the lender doesn't have the ability to repossess the home for three or four years, it's very hard to clear the excess supply," says Jonah Green , director of mortgage analytics at 1010data, a technology and analysis firm in New York.”
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Do That Again! ~~ "Re-verbs"
List of verbs that begin with re-, meaning to repeat a specific action or process - reappraise, for example.
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