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foreclose

Posted on January 11, 2016January 11, 2016 by admin

for kloz

transitive verb
1. to take away the right to redeem (a mortgage) or to take that right away from (the mortgagor), esp. for failure to make timely payments.
2. to bar or rule out.
Let’s not foreclose any possibilities.
3. to close or resolve beforehand.
Her speech foreclosed all my objections.

intransitive verb
to foreclose a mortgage.

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