Usually means: Legal claim against someone's property.
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We found 74 dictionaries that define the word lien:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lien: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lien: Merriam-Webster
  3. lien: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lien: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lien: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lien: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lien, lien, lien: Wordnik
  8. lien: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lien: Wiktionary
  10. lien: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lien: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lien: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lien: Dictionary.com
  14. lien: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Lien (disambiguation), Lien: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lien: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lien: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lien: Rhymezone
  19. Lien, lien (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lien: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lien: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lien: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lien: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Lien: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lien-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. lien: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. lien: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. lien: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  10. LIEN: Accounting Glossary
  11. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  12. Lien: bizterms.net
  13. Lien: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  14. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  15. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  16. lien: Finance-Glossary.com
  17. Credit Terms (No longer online)
  18. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  20. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  21. Lien: Investopedia
  22. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  23. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  24. lien: Legal dictionary
  25. lien: Financial dictionary
  26. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  27. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  28. Lien: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  29. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  30. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  2. lien: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lien: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Lien: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. lien, lien(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. LIEN, LIEN, LIEN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  5. lien: Genealogy Glossary
  6. LIEN: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LIEN: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lien: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lien: Construction Glossary

(Note: See liens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A tendon.
noun:  (law) A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
noun:  (uncommon, possibly obsolete) The spleen.
verb:  (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain [(obsolete) To conceal, keep quiet about.]

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