Foreclose
verb
To take back property because the money owed for the property has not been paid.
After they missed their mortgage payments for six months, the bank began the process to foreclose the house.
Often appears as...
- foreclose on a property
- foreclose a mortgage
verb
To prevent something from happening or someone from doing something.
His lack of qualification foreclosed the possibility of a promotion.
Often appears as...
- foreclose an opportunity
- foreclose the possibility
verb
To take back property because the money owed for the property has not been paid.
After they missed their mortgage payments for six months, the bank began the process to foreclose the house.
Often appears as...
- foreclose on a property
- foreclose a mortgage
verb
To prevent something from happening or someone from doing something.
His lack of qualification foreclosed the possibility of a promotion.
Often appears as...
- foreclose an opportunity
- foreclose the possibility
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Process
Foreclosing is not instant; it involves lengthy legal proceedings to reclaim a property.
The foreclosure on the farm will take several months of legal procedures.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Trouble
Using 'foreclose' suggests that someone failed to meet financial obligations, like a loan.
If we don't pay the mortgage, the bank could foreclose our house.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Outcome
'Foreclose' typically implies a distressing or undesirable situation for the property owner.
The small business owner faced foreclosure after the economic downturn.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Process
Foreclosing is not instant; it involves lengthy legal proceedings to reclaim a property.
The foreclosure on the farm will take several months of legal procedures.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Trouble
Using 'foreclose' suggests that someone failed to meet financial obligations, like a loan.
If we don't pay the mortgage, the bank could foreclose our house.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Outcome
'Foreclose' typically implies a distressing or undesirable situation for the property owner.
The small business owner faced foreclosure after the economic downturn.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Process
Foreclosing is not instant; it involves lengthy legal proceedings to reclaim a property.
The foreclosure on the farm will take several months of legal procedures.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Trouble
Using 'foreclose' suggests that someone failed to meet financial obligations, like a loan.
If we don't pay the mortgage, the bank could foreclose our house.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Outcome
'Foreclose' typically implies a distressing or undesirable situation for the property owner.
The small business owner faced foreclosure after the economic downturn.
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My $500 house in Detroit...
Or clergy and teachers engaging in civil disobedience to block water shutoff trucks. It's organizations buying back foreclosed homes for their inhabitants or fighting misinformation on forced sales through social media and volunteer-run hotlines. For me, it means helping others to raise the beams
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Martin Rees: Can we...
shouldn't accept even a one in a billion risk that human extinction would foreclose this immense potential. Some scenarios that have been envisaged may indeed be science fiction, but others may be disquietingly real. It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar
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Adam Grant: What frogs...
not a purpose. My values were to grow and excel, and to contribute to helping my teammates grow and excel. Grow, excel, contribute. I didn't have to be a diver to grow, excel and contribute. Research suggests that instead of foreclosing on one identity,
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
occupying overall less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime and seemingly occurring with runaway speed? If they continued their vigil, what might these hypothetical aliens witness in the next hundred years? Will some spasm foreclose Earth's future?
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Why I choose humanism...
have irreversibly, irreparably foreclosed the chances and possibility for Africa to emerge, thrive and flourish. We must realize that there is no part of the world that has not been colonized or enslaved in the past.
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Shlomo Benartzi: Saving...
Let's start with mortgages. It's kind of a recent topic, at least in the U.S. A lot of people buy the biggest house they can afford, and actually slightly bigger than that. And then they foreclose.
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Why do we blame...
when feeling stressed. As home mortgages are being foreclosed and thousands of people are emigrating, we are told to dream big and to follow our dreams. As a sociologist,
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Miracle Jones: The...
so i would hold on to my joy for as long as possible even even when i saw my mom struggle to feed and clothe four children on her even when the bank foreclosed on her
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The strengths and...
for acids and bases. It's always open for business, doesn't charge interest, and will never foreclose on your molecules, which is more than I can say for. Waah-waah.
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5 Ethical Principles for...
What must we gracefully exit out of to be fit for these futures? And What future good might we foreclose if we implemented this action today?
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My $500 house in Detroit...
Or clergy and teachers engaging in civil disobedience to block water shutoff trucks. It's organizations buying back foreclosed homes for their inhabitants or fighting misinformation on forced sales through social media and volunteer-run hotlines. For me, it means helping others to raise the beams
Video examples
Martin Rees: Can we...
shouldn't accept even a one in a billion risk that human extinction would foreclose this immense potential. Some scenarios that have been envisaged may indeed be science fiction, but others may be disquietingly real. It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar
Video examples
Adam Grant: What frogs...
not a purpose. My values were to grow and excel, and to contribute to helping my teammates grow and excel. Grow, excel, contribute. I didn't have to be a diver to grow, excel and contribute. Research suggests that instead of foreclosing on one identity,
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
occupying overall less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime and seemingly occurring with runaway speed? If they continued their vigil, what might these hypothetical aliens witness in the next hundred years? Will some spasm foreclose Earth's future?
Video examples
Why I choose humanism...
have irreversibly, irreparably foreclosed the chances and possibility for Africa to emerge, thrive and flourish. We must realize that there is no part of the world that has not been colonized or enslaved in the past.
Video examples
Shlomo Benartzi: Saving...
Let's start with mortgages. It's kind of a recent topic, at least in the U.S. A lot of people buy the biggest house they can afford, and actually slightly bigger than that. And then they foreclose.
Video examples
Why do we blame...
when feeling stressed. As home mortgages are being foreclosed and thousands of people are emigrating, we are told to dream big and to follow our dreams. As a sociologist,
Video examples
Miracle Jones: The...
so i would hold on to my joy for as long as possible even even when i saw my mom struggle to feed and clothe four children on her even when the bank foreclosed on her
Video examples
The strengths and...
for acids and bases. It's always open for business, doesn't charge interest, and will never foreclose on your molecules, which is more than I can say for. Waah-waah.
Video examples
5 Ethical Principles for...
What must we gracefully exit out of to be fit for these futures? And What future good might we foreclose if we implemented this action today?
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Quote examples
Joshua Oppenheimer
British Director
If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.
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Jeremy Jordan
American Musician
Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.
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Roger Altman
American Businessman
Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.
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Alice Walker
American Author
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
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Hideki Tojo
Japanese General
With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
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will.i.am
American Musician
I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
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Tom Leykis
American Entertainer
When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!
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Jan C. Ting
American Politician
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
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Steve Mnuchin
American Public Servant
We unfortunately did foreclose on certain people in the military.
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Minna Antrim
American Writer
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
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Joshua Oppenheimer
British Director
If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.
Quote examples
Jeremy Jordan
American Musician
Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.
Quote examples
Roger Altman
American Businessman
Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.
Quote examples
Alice Walker
American Author
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Quote examples
Hideki Tojo
Japanese General
With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
Quote examples
will.i.am
American Musician
I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
Quote examples
Tom Leykis
American Entertainer
When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!
Quote examples
Jan C. Ting
American Politician
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
Quote examples
Steve Mnuchin
American Public Servant
We unfortunately did foreclose on certain people in the military.
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Minna Antrim
American Writer
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
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