What is "foreclose"

Usage examples of "foreclose".

We could be shut down in five minutes then if the bank foreclosed on the tankers, which they will.

But let's not eliminate him as a suspect just yet or, for that matter, foreclose other reasons besides blackmail for Allison's murder.

But now-- The order for foreclosing had gone forth, and the harpies of the law, by their present speed in sticking their claws into the carcass of his property, were atoning to themselves for the delay with which they had hitherto been compelled to approach their prey.

Next, because he had borrowed so much money to build the pig-shit-fueled ships, the banks foreclosed on him an thew him out of bidness entirely.

He'd always circled like a vulture, waiting to foreclose on hapless widows and families whose breadwinners had been fired or become disabled.

They foreclosed, took their cash advances back in the form of military hardware, and have started training their own men.

Military force should be our last choice, after all other possibilities have been foreclosed, not our first choice.

In those bird species in which the efforts of one parent suffice, that parent is more often the mother than the father, for the reasons discussed in chapter 2: the female's greater obligate internal investment in the fertilized embryo, the greater opportunities foreclosed for the male by parental care, and the male's low confidence in paternity as a result of internal fertilization.

Hence anthropologists remain undecided whether the two considerations that I have discussed so far—investing in grandchildren and protecting one's prior investment in existing children—suffice to offset menopause's foreclosed option of further children and thus to explain the evolution of human female menopause.

Of the nineteen farms foreclosed by Wendell, the average price he had to pay per acre was sixteen cents.

Those initial discoverers would have filled up the galaxy and foreclosed the possibility of anybody else coming into existence in the future.

But those hypothetical outcomes were foreclosed by mammal extinctions thousands of years earlier.

But let's not assume that this new arrangement of power forecloses all possibilities of resistance and change.

A man who devotes himself to child care potentially forecloses many alternative opportunities.

With no male heir, the line dies with him and I’d wager the Crown forecloses on the estate.