repossession
- a word derived from repossess.
Example Sentences
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They are also “more likely to have their account assigned to repossession within two years.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
In Southern California, repossession of a car whose owner is behind on loan payments is not uncommon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
They included a couple now £13,000 in arrears on a home they bought, and a woman who faced the repossession of a house she left following a marriage breakdown 15 years earlier.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
The government confirmed that all section 21 notices issued before May will stand, but it said landlords must begin court repossession proceedings by 31 July 2026.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
He was in repossession of all his faculties, there was no doubt of that, but there was a blank in his life he could never fill out of his own volition.
From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Chapman, Allen
