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Definitions: Repossess |
RepossessVerb1. Claim back. 2. Regain possession of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repossess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Synonyms: RepossessSynonyms: reclaim (v), take back (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Repossess |
| English words defined with "repossess": foreclosure ♦ Recover arms, Recure ♦ To repossess one's self of. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Federal Law "On Leasing" implicates, in Article 13, to have strengthened a lessor's right to repossess leased property. (references) | |
Secondly, the definition of whether a loan is in default has been changed from 2 to 3 consecutive missed payments, before the finance firm can repossess the vehicle. (references) | ||
In a number of cases certain Russian businesses have not paid foreign equipment suppliers what was owed, perceiving they could avoid making such payments, and, essentially, get away with it by imposing prohibitive costs on their suppliers and creditors in seeking to repossess equipment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Haiti | The State leases the right to broadcast to private enterprises but maintains the right to repossess the airwaves in the event of national emergencies, including natural disasters. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Repossess" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Repossess" is used about 48 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 93.75% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "repossess": repossess of ♦ To repossess one's self of. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
repossess | 16 |
car repossess | 8 |
auto repossess | 3 |
repoman repossess repossesses repossession tow | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "repossess"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستعاد الملكبة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | възвръщам си (get back, recapture, redeem, regain, resume, retrieve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "回 (callback, call-back, recoup, repossession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reprendre possession de, entrer en possession de. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wieder nehmen (recapture, to recapture, to reposs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανακτώ (recapture, recover, regain, restore, retrieve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rientrare in possesso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goaill aahellooderys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epossessray recãpãta (recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retrieve), poseda din nou. (various references) recobrar (get back, pick up, recapture, recoup, recover, regain, retrieve, win back). (various references) yeniden sahip olmak, tekrar ele geçirmek. (various references) adfeddiannu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "repossess": repossessed, repossesses, repossessing, repossession, repossessions, repossessor, repossessors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "repossess": prepossess. (additional references) | |
Words containing "repossess": prepossessed, prepossesses, prepossessing, prepossession, prepossessions, unprepossessing. (additional references) | |
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"Repossess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reposses, repsess. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "repossess" (pronounced rē'puze"s) |
| 5 | -p u z e" s | dispossess, possess. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: espressos. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-o-p-r-s-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: espresso. | |
-2 letters: possess, presses, prosses, reposes. | |
-3 letters: eposes, eroses, perses, posers, posses, proses, repose, sepses, speers, spores, sprees. | |
-4 letters: erose, erses, esses, peers, perse, pesos, pores, poser, poses, posse, prees, prese, press, prose, pross, repos, ropes, roses, seeps, seers, seres, sores, speer, spore, spree. | |
-5 letters: epos, eros, eses, opes, ores, oses, peer, pees, peso, pore. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-o-p-r-s-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: prepossess. | |
+2 letters: prosinesses, repossessed, repossesses, repossessor. | |
+3 letters: porousnesses, prepossessed, prepossesses, repossessing, repossession, repossessors, salespersons, sportinesses, subprocesses, supersession, suspensories. | |
+4 letters: dessertspoons, operosenesses, powerlessness, prepossessing, prepossession, profusenesses, repossessions, spokespersons, supersessions. | |
+5 letters: businessperson, clothespresses, expressionisms, expressionists, expressionless, oppressiveness, pastoralnesses, perilousnesses, perviousnesses, postmistresses, preciousnesses, prepossessions, previousnesses, prosperousness, responsiveness, sportfulnesses, sportivenesses, spuriousnesses, vaporishnesses, vaporousnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 6F 73 73 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. --- ... ... . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01101111 01110011 01110011 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p o s s e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 006F 0073 0073 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182818585718585 |
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