REPOSSESS


Meaning of REPOSSESS in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

home

Most mortgage lenders stress that they are not keen to repossess homes .

This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment: few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

His car was eventually repossessed by the auto loan agency.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year.

Figures released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders last week show that about 80,000 homes were repossessed by lenders in 1991.

He or his collection agent will try to repossess everything you own.

Marsh had spent some of the money on buying a Jaguar, followed by a Porsche which had now been repossessed.

Most mortgage lenders stress that they are not keen to repossess homes.

Most of the money is owed by people whose homes have been repossessed and sold for less than their outstanding mortgage.

The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed.

This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment: few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market.

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