Definition of Repossession

1. Noun. The action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default).

Generic synonyms: Recovery, Retrieval
Derivative terms: Repossess

Definition of Repossession

1. n. The act or the state of possessing again.

Definition of Repossession

1. Noun. The condition of being repossessed ¹

2. Noun. The act of repossessing ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repossession

1. possession [n -S] - See also: possession

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repossession

repositionable
repositioned
repositioner
repositioners
repositioning
repositionings
repositions
repositor
repositories
repository
reposits
repossess
repossessed
repossesses
repossessing
repossession (current term)
repossessions
repossessor
repossessors
repost
reposted
reposting
reposts
reposure
reposures
repot
repots
repotted
repotting
repour

Literary usage of Repossession

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Georgia by Charles Colcock Jones (1883)
"THE upper portion of Georgia being now under the control of the republicans, General Twiggs directed his attention to the repossession of the middle and ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers and Pledge by James Schouler (1897)
"The Same Subject; Suit for repossession. — Upon full satisfaction of the secured indebtedness, or the tender thereof, besides a demand for the pledge, ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers, and Pledge by James Schouler (1887)
"The same Subject; Suit for repossession. — Upon full satisfaction of the secured indebtedness, or the tender thereof, besides a demand for the pledge, ..."

4. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"Beside the repossession of my land, And payment of my debts, that I must practise. I had a reputation, but 'twas lost In ray loose course; and till I redeem ..."

5. the real democracy (first essays of the Rota club): (first Essays of the by J. E. F. Mann, N. J. Sievers, R. W. T. Cox (1913)
"THE PROCESS OF repossession. IT remains now to suggest the appropriate means by which a society founded upon a distributive economic basis can be developed ..."

6. From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865 by Mary Ames (1906)
"ers were coming and going to arrange with the government representative for their repossession. Many of them were gentlemen, who came into our school and ..."

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