Distraint

Definition: Distraint

Distraint

Noun

1. The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim.

Date "distraint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references)

Etymology: Distraint \Dis*traint"\, noun. [Old French expression destrainte distress, force.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Business	The act of seizing goods by permission of a court of law, especially by a landlord to obtain payment of rent in arrears. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Distraint

Synonym: distress (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Taking	Dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment; disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Distraint

Specialty definitions using "distraint": Shoot the Moon. (references)

"Distraint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distraint" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Expressions using "distraint": lay a distraint upon ♦ right of distraint. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "distraint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sekuestrim (sequestration). (various references)

Arabic		‏الحجز (isolation, keeping). (various references)

Danish		salg af håndpantsatte effekter (distress, forced sale of collaterals), realisation af håndpantsatte effekter (distress, forced sale of collaterals). (various references)

Dutch		roerend beslag (seizure of movable property), executoriaal beslag (distress, forced sale of collaterals), beslag op roerende goederen (seizure of movable property), beslag op roerend goed (seizure of movable property, seizure of movables). (various references)

Finnish		irtaimen omaisuuden takavarikko (seizure of movable property, seizure of movables). (various references)

French		saisie-exécution (distress). (various references)

German		pfändung (attachment, seizure). (various references)

Greek		αναγκαστική πώληση ενεχύρων (distress, forced sale of collaterals). (various references)

Italian		pignoramento (attachment). (various references)

Norwegian		utpantning. (various references)

Pig Latin		istraintday

Portuguese		penhora de bens móveis (seizure of movable property, seizure of movables). (various references)

Romanian		sechestru (attachment, execution, extent, sequester), poprire pe. (various references)

Russian		удержание имущества. (various references)

Spanish		venta forzosa de bienes muebles (distress, forced sale of collaterals), secuestro (abduction, hijack, hijacking, kidnapping, seizure, sequestration, sequestrum). (various references)

Swedish		utmätning av lös egendom (seizure of movable property), exekution (distress, execution). (various references)

Turkish		rehin olarak tutma, haciz (attachment, confiscation, distress, garnishment, levy, seizure, sequestration, vesting), el koyma (appropriation, dip, expropriation, ouster, seisin, seizin, seizure, usurpation). (various references)

Ukrainian		арешт майна (distrainment). (various references)

Welsh		atafaeliad (confiscation), atafael (confiscate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "distraint": distraints. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-n-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: distrain, distrait.
	-2 letters: diarist, distain, distant, nitrids, titians, transit.
	-3 letters: artist, dinars, drains, indris, instar, isatin, nadirs, nitrid, raisin, ranids, santir, strain, strait, strand, strati, taints, tanist, titans, titian, trains, traits, triads.
	-4 letters: adits, airns, airts, antis, astir, darns, darts, dinar, dints, dirts, ditas, drain, drats, indri, intis, irids, nadir, nards, naris, nitid, radii.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-n-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: distraints, traditions.
	+2 letters: distracting, distraction.
	+3 letters: administrant, administrate, disintegrate, disorientate, dissertating, dissertation, distortional, distractions, ditransitive, extraditions, ingratitudes, interstadial, intimidators, stridulating, stridulation, trepidations, unstratified.
	+4 letters: administrants, administrated, administrates, administrator, adventuristic, antimodernist, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrator, disorientated, disorientates, dissertations, distractingly, ditransitives, dramatisation, indoctrinates, industrialist, intermediates, interstadials, repristinated, stridulations, traditionless, transactinide.
	+5 letters: accreditations, administrating, administration, administrative, administrators, administratrix, antiapartheids, antifederalist, antimodernists, bastardization, contradictions, contradictious, decortications, decrepitations, deteriorations, determinations, determinatives, differentiates, disintegrating, disintegration, disintegrative, disintegrators, disorientating, disorientation, dissertational, distributional, dramatisations, dramatizations, indoctrinators, industrialists, interdigitates, pancreatitides, postindustrial, predestinating, predestination, premeditations, radiostrontium, redistillation, reinvestigated, repudiationist, tenderizations, traditionalism, traditionalist, transistorised, transistorized.
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