artisan's lien

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   lien permitting an artisan to retain possession of a piece of work until has been paid for

   Broaderlien

Questions about artisan's lien

What does artisan's lien mean?

artisan's lien means "lien permitting an artisan to retain possession of a piece of work until has been paid for".

Is artisan's lien a common word?

artisan's lien is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.