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say it: eh-SKROH
escrow is a noun meaning "a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition". It is pronounced /ɛˈskɹoʊ/ — eh-SKROH. It carries one recorded sense.
a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for escrow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.