impoundment

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.