impoundment

1. 1.

   placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

   Synonymsimpoundinginternmentpoundage

   Broaderseizure

   Narrowerdrug bust

   law

Other forms of impoundment

plural

impoundments·

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 impoundment

What does impoundment mean?

impoundment means "placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law".

How many syllables are in impoundment?

impoundment has 3 syllables: im-pound-ment. The stress falls on "pound". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpaʊndmənt/.

What is another word for impoundment?

Close synonyms include impounding, internment, poundage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impoundment a common word?

impoundment 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.