🏠foreclose

Meaning

to take possession of a property due to the owner's failure to keep up mortgage payments

Example Sentences

The bank decided to foreclose on the property after months of missed payments.

Example Expressions

foreclose on a mortgage

Synonyms

seize, repossess, confiscate, reclaim, appropriate

Antonyms

release, forgive, return

Collocations

foreclose on, bank forecloses, foreclose property, foreclose rights