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- verb Present participle of
repossess .
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Examples
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Though the President talked of "repossessing" the stolen forts, arsenals, and custom-houses, yet close upon this declaration followed the disheartening intelligence that the cabinet were discussing the propriety of evacuating not only Fort Sumter, which was of no strategic importance, but Fort Pickens, which was the key to the Gulf of Mexico, and to abandon which was almost to acknowledge the independence of the
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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Georgakopoulos instructed the tax office heads to do more to meet goals for the first four months of the year and chase down taxpayers with debts owed to the state by resorting to measures such as repossessing homes and seizing money from bank accounts.
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I don't have to worry about an eBook reader format changing, I don't have to worry about seller "repossessing" them and I can resell them if I need to.
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Now the town is plastered with "For Sale" signs from Servihabitat, the real estate branch of La Caixa, which is repossessing properties – though owners must still pay off their full debt after homes have been taken away.
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The investigations were launched last year amid news reports that the lenders were at times improperly repossessing borrowers' homes and breaking state laws and federal rules in the process.
Elizabeth Warren: Government Hasn't Sufficiently Probed Foreclosure Abuses (VIDEO) 2011
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They are about as similar to each other, as either of them are toRepo Man, the Emilio classic about repossessing cars.
REVIEW: Repo Men « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010
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After all, they are both about repossessing transplanted organs from living people.
REVIEW: Repo Men « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010
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You can't have a bank saying your home is worth €180,000, lending you the money and then repossessing it at half that price, says Moguel, a Socialist.
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To correct those problems, banks are moving more cautiously when repossessing a home.
Home Listings Fall but Woes Persist Nick Timiraos 2011
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Mortgages where properties have been abandoned and the banks are repossessing them should go forward.
The case for a foreclosure moratorium Ezra Klein 2010
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