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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fɔːˈkləʊz/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /fɔɹˈkloʊz/
• (General Australian) IPA: /foːˈkləʉz/, /ˌfoːˈklɐʉz/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /foːˈklɐʉz/
• 韻: -əʊz

動詞

foreclose (third-person singular simple present forecloses, present participle foreclosing, simple past and past participle foreclosed)

1. (transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.

   They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.

2. (transitive, law) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
3. (transitive, originally) To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.

   Synonyms: stop, prevent, bar, exclude

   • 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:

     The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

   • 2005, Tony Judt, “The Power of the Powerless”, in Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

     One of the paradoxes of Ostpolitik, as practiced by Brandt and his successors, was that by transferring large sums of hard currency into East Germany and showering the GDR with recognition, attention, and support, West German officials unintentionally foreclosed any chance of internal change, including reform of Eastern Germany’s polluted, antiquated industrial economy.

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 55:

     to foreclose the possibility completely. she packed the footwell of the passenger seat with her duffel bag and camping gear and buckled a stack of seed trays on to the seat.

派生語

• foreclosee
• forecloser
• foreclosure
• foreclosable

関連する語

• forestall
• preclude

Further reading

• foreclosure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “foreclose”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.