foreclosure

1. 1.

   the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default

   Broaderproceeding

Other forms of foreclosure

plural

foreclosures·

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.

Questions about foreclosure

What does foreclosure mean?

foreclosure means "the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default".

How many syllables are in foreclosure?

foreclosure has 3 syllables: fore-clo-sure. The stress falls on "clo". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈkloʊʒɚ/.

Is foreclosure a common word?

foreclosure is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with foreclosure?

4 words rhyme with foreclosure. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.