n
Alternative form of allottee [The person to whom an allotment is allotted.]
n
(law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
v
(transitive) To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.
n
A rescue, especially a financial rescue.
v
(intransitive) Alternative spelling of bail out [(transitive) To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.]
v
(transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
v
(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
n
(obsolete) A stock exchange; a bourse.
n
(obsolete) An assessment or tax.
n
(law) The holder or beneficiary of a charge or right in security (such as a debenture).
v
(transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
n
(business) The party that provides merchandise for consignment sale.
v
(law, India) To lift a posted bond
n
A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
n
One who receives goods or a deposit in trust.
n
(informal) The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
n
A person or organization that holds something in escrow.
v
To dispense property in this way.
n
(Scotland) A warrant to apprehend a debtor who is about to abscond.
n
(law) The loan of money upon bottomry, i.e. on a mortgage of a ship.
v
(transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
n
(real estate) A company which offers to buy real estate (usually residential) quickly for cash, often without the level of due diligence exercised by traditional buyers and using computer algorithms to determine price.
n
(obsolete) The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.
n
(chiefly historical) A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.
n
(obsolete, slang) Synonym of straw bail
n
(historical) A program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Let; demised, leased.
n
(obsolete, Scottish and Northern English) A lane.
n
Alternative form of oppignoration [(obsolete) The act of pawning or laying in pledge.]
n
(obsolete) The act of pawning or laying in pledge.
n
The process of pawning goods.
n
The business of a pawnbroker; advancing loans against pledges of household goods or personal possessions, and selling those pledges that are not redeemed.
n
The act by which something is pawned.
n
(UK, historical) The practice, abolished in 1871, of paying money to be made an officer in the cavalry and infantry regiments of the English and later British Army, without having to wait for promotion.
n
(law) a form of bail; a promise made by the accused to the court that they will attend all required judicial proceedings and will not engage in further illegal activity or other prohibited conduct as set by the court.
adj
(UK, military, of an officer) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop.
n
A fee one pays to reserve the other's time for services.
n
(dialect) Alternative form of revenuer [(US, regional, now historical) A government official who enforces laws prohibiting the illegal distillation of alcohol.]
n
Alternative spelling of sess (sensimilla) [(obsolete) A tax; an assessment.]
n
(obsolete) salary; military pay
n
Obsolete form of tallage. [An impost.]
v
(law) to impose a tax upon
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