Usually means: Seizing and holding property legally.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. impounding: Merriam-Webster
  2. impounding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. impounding: Vocabulary.com
  4. impounding: Wordnik
  5. impounding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. impounding: Wiktionary
  7. Impounding, impounding: Dictionary.com
  8. impounding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Impounding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. impounding: Rhymezone
  11. Impounding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. impounding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. impounding: FreeDictionary.org
  14. impounding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. impounding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. impounding: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. impounding: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impounding: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impounding)

▸ noun:  An act of impoundment.

Similar:
impoundment, internment, poundage, impoundage, impounder, immuring, imposition, incarceration, encumberment, empressment, more...

Opposite:
releasing, freeing, returning, relinquishing

Types:
detention, confinement, sequestration, isolation, more...

Adjectives:
such, first, temporary, illegal, presidential, night, improper, initial, large, further, mere

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Similar:
impoundment, internment, poundage, impoundage, impounder, immuring, imposition, incarceration, encumberment, empressment, more...

Opposite:
releasing, freeing, returning, relinquishing

Types:
detention, confinement, sequestration, isolation, more...

Adjectives:
such, first, temporary, illegal, presidential, night, improper, initial, large, further, mere



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